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Saturday, Jan 17, 2009
Coimbatore: When the general trend in placement drives among engineering and arts and science colleges has been disappointing, the placement activities of agricultural graduates do not seem to have joined this bandwagon yet.
According to M. Thangaraju, Director, Directorate of Students' Welfare of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, there has been no decline in the number of companies visiting the university for campus recruitments and job fairs. "Their demand continues to be consistent and the economic meltdown does not seem to have had an impact on the sectors that employ agricultural students. There is a slight delay from the banking front, otherwise there seems to be no slump in the demand," he asserts.
The last few years have been witnessing a remarkable increase in the admission to agricultural courses in spite of the Information Technology wave. Those who selected these courses have not been given cause for distress, as they remain to be among the few who still have something to look forward to in terms of employment.
While those visiting the campus are from the seed, food, fertilizer, plantation and banking industry, the maximum demand for the graduates is in the agro-industries.
Even non-governmental organisations favour agricultural graduates. The Directorate places graduates who register with them in national and international organisations too.
The recruitment figures for graduates at TNAU for 2006, 2007 and 2008 are 281, 111 and 221 respectively. The total recruitment of agricultural graduates in 2008 is 245 as compared to the 155 in 2007. There is a similar rise in postgraduate and Ph.D. recruitments.
"There is not only a huge demand for them in India, but also abroad, especially in the Gulf countries where landscaping is being promoted in a big way. The companies who recruit our students have a requirement throughout the year. So they keep visiting the university once in two months or so. Some companies visit at regular intervals," Mr. Thangaraju says.
Besides these companies there are the Government departments and the Civil Services that the graduates opt for. There have been more than 15 agricultural graduates who clear the Civil Services examinations every year. This amounts to about 40 per cent of the State quota.
The slow down does not seem to have affected the recruitment of agricultural graduates to the extent it has affected their counterparts from other disciplines. Some arts and science colleges have not even placed two per cent of their students.
The university has not missed its regular stream of job fairs and recruitment drives.
The university ensures that students are directly placed with the companies and does not deal with consultancy firms so that they are ensured of genuine placements. Agricultural students are still a happy lot who do not have to start from scratch in pursuit of a good job.
Job prospects of agri graduates continue to look bright
Coimbatore: When the general trend in placement drives among engineering and arts and science colleges has been disappointing, the placement activities of agricultural graduates do not seem to have joined this bandwagon yet.
According to M. Thangaraju, Director, Directorate of Students' Welfare of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, there has been no decline in the number of companies visiting the university for campus recruitments and job fairs. "Their demand continues to be consistent and the economic meltdown does not seem to have had an impact on the sectors that employ agricultural students. There is a slight delay from the banking front, otherwise there seems to be no slump in the demand," he asserts.
While those visiting the campus are from the seed, food, fertilizer, plantation and banking industry, the maximum demand for the graduates is in the agro-industries.
Even non-governmental organisations favour agricultural graduates. The Directorate places graduates who register with them in national and international organisations too.
The recruitment figures for graduates at TNAU for 2006, 2007 and 2008 are 281, 111 and 221 respectively. The total recruitment of agricultural graduates in 2008 is 245 as compared to the 155 in 2007. There is a similar rise in postgraduate and Ph.D. recruitments.
"There is not only a huge demand for them in India, but also abroad, especially in the Gulf countries where landscaping is being promoted in a big way. The companies who recruit our students have a requirement throughout the year. So they keep visiting the university once in two months or so. Some companies visit at regular intervals," Mr. Thangaraju says.
Besides these companies there are the Government departments and the Civil Services that the graduates opt for. There have been more than 15 agricultural graduates who clear the Civil Services examinations every year. This amounts to about 40 per cent of the State quota.
The slow down does not seem to have affected the recruitment of agricultural graduates to the extent it has affected their counterparts from other disciplines. Some arts and science colleges have not even placed two per cent of their students.
The university has not missed its regular stream of job fairs and recruitment drives.
The university ensures that students are directly placed with the companies and does not deal with consultancy firms so that they are ensured of genuine placements. Agricultural students are still a happy lot who do not have to start from scratch in pursuit of a good job.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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