Question

Read the following
questions given at the end :-
1. While India is an agricultural country and at least seventy
passage carefully and answer the
per cent of the boys living today will eventually become farmers
the tendency of education has often been to disqualify rather than
The average youth still looks to education
as an escape from agriculture instead of a preparotian for it.
Eventually, as it often occurs, the way to a salaried position is closed
and he is forced to take up agriculture as an occupation. He
considers himself fortunate and his parents speak of the time and
prepere them for farming.
an
time and
While it is not desirable that the
teacher should attempt to make future farmers of the boys in his
class, it is a strange paradox that knowledge of agriculture as an
money spent in school as wasted.
occupation should be withheld from them in neaily all
far as
schools. As
far as possible a boy ehould be free to choose the occupation Occupation for tor
which he is best fitted, but without some knowledge and guidance
during the years in school, he is not in a position to choose wisely
(J. K. Matric, 1970 Specia)
Questions: . Summarise the above passage. 2. Give a suitable heading to it.
3. Why do the parents think that the time and money spe
on their children in school are wasted ?

Answer 1

Answer:

India has enough food; does it have too many people working in agriculture? The pressure on land is an outcome of policy, which condemns most people to marginal farming. India needs a different set of solutions for agriculture and for those working the land.

India is an agricultural country. Agriculture is “only” ~16 % of GDP but the largest sector for employment. Officially farmers are only a few hundred million, but adding family members who help or occasionally farm, as also wage labourers, the number of farm workers is likely to be closer to half a billion people. But how many people would India need farming if it were as labour efficient as the US for growing crops? I am not suggesting it is possible

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