The role of education in farming / agricultural industry - Abhipreet

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Description

Most agricultural and farming methods and techniques specifically with the small farm holders depend on what’s passed from generations. In 1992, the World Bank conducted a survey to measure the relationship between farmer’s education and their agricultural efficiency in low income countries and found out that farmers with basic education were 8.7% more productive than farmers with no education (Gasperini, 2000). This indicated that there is a positive corelation. Presenting prospective and new farmers with the methods, networks, and mindsets of regenerative agriculture offers a relatively easy entry point to creating traction for transformation compared to changing the practices of current farmers.

Enablers

1. Public Education Structures 2. Online courses 3. Government policies (bundling the fiscal and monetary policies to education) 4. Subsidies on professional education

Inhibitors

1. Crop margins 2. Rigidity and slow industry 3. Standardization and institutionalization of the education system 4. Involvement of agribusiness in curriculum development 5. industrial-era mindset that favors productivity over agroecological processes

Paradigms

Educating people to adapt to change, rather than building their capacity to shape and create change

Web resources

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-021-01041-7

https://www.journalijdr.com/effects-education-agricultural-productivity-farmers-offinso-municipality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_agriculture