We should not be wreckless in our industrial pursuits and neglect or wipe out agriculture. It is a dangerous trend and we must realize agriculture supports more than 60% of our country even now. While urbanization and industrial growth is important, it should be carefully planned to not hurt agriculture. Also, priorities for our nation should be - 1. Population Control 2. Spread education 3. Maintain self sufficiency in food 4. Infrastructure development, more subways and rail road dev 5. Environment and pollution control. Rate at which cars are increasing, we will all soon die of lung cancer, inspite of the lakhs in the bank.
RE:Agriculture is more important than industry
by lonely_planet on May 01, 2008 12:26 PM Permalink
dude..It is really painful for being agriculture graduate in India..How many people know that there is branch called agriculture engineering in india ??.. This course is taught in IIT Kharagpur..where people burn there asses for software jobs..because really very few core companies turns up there...and pay less than 20k p.m.
RE:Agriculture is more important than industry
by tathya on May 01, 2008 12:49 PM Permalink
And AP govt is planning to start IIT with agricultural engineering as speacilisation(after so many controversies regarding locations,land aquisations etc)..So much for our planners,politicians etc..Less written better...Time waste....
RE:Agriculture is more important than industry
by timepass on May 01, 2008 12:34 PM Permalink
It is a sad reality and honestly we cannot blame engineers moving to IT for double salary. The only solution I can think of is scale up our engineer production as well as maintain quality. We still need people to go through strict entrance exams to qualify for engg seats, but we can increase the number of seats and ranks so enuf skilled labor is produced.
