Role of skilling and training in farm mechanization

Agriculture has created a demand for skilled and unskilled workforce which is responsive to emerging in employment (48.9%) and it's well equipped with knowledge. Against the developed countries, where the percentage of skilled workforce is between 60% and 90% of the total workforce, India records only a low workforce of 5% (within age group of 20-24 years) with formal vocational skills and there is very less investment as well as opportunity for skilling to farmers. India has covering 141.35 million hectares of arable land of which 55 million is irrigated. India is largest manufacturer of farm equipment such as tractors, harvesters and tillers and account for nearly one-third of the overall tractor production globally. The future farming is required an investment for farm mechanization. The custom hiring of mechanization for transportation, tillage, irrigation, harvesting and threshing have a potential future for farmers in India. The Central Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute, Budni, Madhya Pradesh, has been boosting the farm mechanization in agriculture for better future farming system in India.