Agriculture- An Art

Life depends on three basic needs food, cloth, and shelter. Plants are source of basic requirement to support life. Civilization and way of living started with domestication of animals by ancient man. Basic way of live got settled after domestication of plants. Domestication is art of taming, raising animal or plant to suit man requirement. More than meeting need, domesticated living being became part in human life. Ancient man started growing plants in groups as a population which requires more care and skill. Hence culturing or cultivation of plants is an art. Growing plants need other inputs like land, water and managing inputs in right way and hence cultivation of plants is a science. This science and art is agriculture.

From ages agriculture is supporting lives of living beings in earth. Agriculture is mainstay in sustaining Indian economy. Being backbone of Indian economy and reason of life, agriculture is important part in people lives. Hence, it became our way of life, part of rituals, festivals and more. Since, agriculture started as course of life, it must be included in course curriculum so that young generations who lost in modern technologies will find essence of agriculture.

It is not extravagant to say that most of the youngsters don’t know how rice crop looks like. Most of the parents don’t know that agriculture do have carrier as other streams in modern world. To change opinion on sankranti, lohri as not just holidays but festivals that celebrate agriculture and its harvest.  To show way to enter into agricultural sector and opportunities in carrier of agriculture, we are here with PATH TO AGRI.


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