Minister emphasises need to make agriculture profitable

Shobha Karandlaje says Centre has launched many schemes to attract youth and to check migration

Emphasising the need for making agriculture profitable, the Union government has launched various schemes to attract the youth towards farming and to check migration, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shobha Karandlaje said on Saturday. Inaugurating a workshop, ‘Yuvakara Nade, Krishi Kade’, organised by the Kalyana Karnataka Human Resources, Agriculture and Cultural Association here, Ms. Karandlaje said that a lack of opportunities and decent jobs in rural areas compel the youth to migrate to urban areas. Rural youth is the future of the agricultural sector and agriculture is the important tool that can stop the migration, she said. Today, a majority of the rural youth are not attracted to agriculture and the Union government has initiated several schemes and programmes to reverse this trend, she said.