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#1 Agriculture Skill Council of India (ASCI)

Agriculture Sector Skill Council of India

has been setup as Section 25 company under Companies act of Ministry of Company Affairs. ASCI will works towards building the Capacity around the Agriculture Industry and bridge the gap between laboratories to farm. The ASCI is targeting to touch/ upgrade skills of about 56.49 Million of Cultivators, Agricultural Labours and Direct and Indirect labour engaged in Organized and Unorganized Agriculture Industry viz, Farm Inputs, Procurement, Supply Chain, Warehousing / Logistics etc.

Agriculture and allied activities accounts for about 15.7 % of country’s GDP and is estimated to employ about 124.7 million people as cultivators and 106.8 million as agricultural labour (Census 2001). Besides this Agriculture Industry employs a large number of people in the Organized and the Unorganized sector, the data pertaining to the same is however not available. Based on the assumptions of Food Grain Production and Manpower required to handle the total produced, the same is derived at (0.20 Million) for Organized and (1.95 Million) for Unorganized sector.

India has about 161 million hectares of arable land of which 55 million is irrigated. With the increase in population the demand for food and Agri produce is increasing, but the supply is constant due to low agricultural productivity. This is predominantly due to improper Farm Management practices and loss in post harvest handling. There is a requirement for specific set of skills in the field of Agriculture with

Vision

“Changing the scenario of Indian Agriculture through bridging the gap in Skill Development”

Mission

• End to end approach on skilling and linking all the stakeholders of Agriculture Value Chain
• Creating more non-agricultural jobs (Agriculture Allied Activities)
• Achieving rapid growth in the Agriculture sector through intensive skill development
• Linking and generating maximum number of entry-level jobs
• Enhancing the economic value of time and labour of landless workforce
• Making farmers of the country Agriculture entrepreneurs through Market Information
• Linking the farm labour with wage related employment in Agriculture sector, during non farming months

Agriculture Skill Council of India (ASCI) at Glance

Address : Agriculture Skill Council of India (ASCI), 4th Floor, Time Square Building, Above Bank of Maharashtra,B-Block,
Sushant Lok-I, Gurgaon
Haryana-122002,

Website: www.asci-india.com

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