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Analysis Study Research Paper | Agriculture | India | Volume 12 Issue 11, November 2023 | Popularity: 6.4 / 10
Attitude of Rural Youth towards Agricultural Sector - A Critical Analysis
Dr. M. Soundarya, K. Udhaya, Dr. G. Parimalarani
Abstract: Indian agriculture is facing variety of emerging challenges and the concerns have shifted from production to more complicated, subtle and multifaceted issues. A number of the contemporary problems in Indian agriculture are land fragmentation, labour shortage, depletion of natural resources, global climate change, low profitability, competition due to market liberalization, nutrition and gender issues etc. Under such circumstances the agriculture sector needs new ideas, innovations, rebranding and revitalization to combat these prevailing challenges. Generally youth is willing to adopt new ideas and technologies and thus they will easily transform this status of farming. The present study was carried out to measure the attitude of rural youth towards agriculture sector. The study was conducted in sivagangai district and sample constituted 328 rural youth. The findings of the study shows that farming is the only solution to limit the unemployment problems, in a country like India which still has lot of people depending on agriculture for their livelihood.
Keywords: Rural youth, Agriculture sector, Farming, Attitude
Edition: Volume 12 Issue 11, November 2023
Pages: 14 - 18