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| Rural youth losing interest in agriculture: Pathania | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 9: After touring and interacting with rural youth in Bani, Billawar, Hiranagar, Kathua, Basohli, Ramnagar, Udhampur, Ramban, Nowshera, Kalakote and parts of Jammu, and holding inefficient bureaucracy and lame-duck political leadership responsible, R. S. Pathania, a prominent lawyer and senior Pradesh Youth Congress leader has appealed the state government, and particularly ministry of Agriculture, for launching of certain crash measures with a view to lure the new generation for fresh ventures and projects in the field of Agriculture.
He said that spiraling prices of seeds and fertilizers and high costs of cultivation and labour has virtually disenchanted the rural youth, and particularly those hailing from hilly areas where the production levels and fertility rates are comparatively lower, for pursuing agriculture as a source of living.
He said that unemployment especially among the rural youth, particularly enhanced by land fragmentation, has forced thousands of youth to hanker after suitable employment at out-of-state destinations leading to mass migrations and brain-drain from the rural areas.
A catch-22 like situation is prevailing in J & K where rural youth are never willing to pursue agriculture as a career and future source of livelihood. He made a fervent appeal for carving out a comprehensive policy regarding attracting the rural youth and diverting them towards cooperative framing, multi-disciplinary approach in farming, organic farming, watersheds and adopting modern and non-conventional techniques of cultivation and creating voluble sources of irrigation in rural areas of J & K.
They should be further encouraged to rely more on cash crops. Government has to make a provision for incentives and training programmes for the rural youth with a view to making them self-sufficient and self-dependent.
He termed it as a worst irony that despite widest-ever potential in tourism, pilgrimage, educational and adventure tourism, horticulture, sericulture, apiculture and even small-scale industries in rural areas of Jammu, people have to shuttle from one state to another in search of bread and butter for their family. Mr. Pathania added that for proper development and flourishment of J & K, it is most imperative that majority of the potential and human resource of rural youth is utilised and channelised in the field of agriculture.
He was accompanied by a battery of senior Youth Congress leaders during the extensive tour that also interacted with the rural youth.
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