Education reform

Education and learning form the fountainhead for agricultural innovation. This is more so when agriculture, driven by highly competitive globalized markets, is becoming more knowledge intensive. There is an acute crisis in agricultural education. The youth is not attracted to take up agriculture as a profession and are not inclined to studying agricultural sciences. This affects farming, agricultural extension and advisory services, research, education, enterprise and the spread of new knowledge, skills and technology. Educational reform is now es... more