Personality :-First and foremost requirement for choosing Agriculture as a career is the interestForthis area, knack for agro based industry and field, ability to withstand the pressure and uncertainties and attitudefor helping people and educating them. Another important trait required is love for the outfields, stay For rural India and far from the fast urban world.

Introduction :-India is agriculture based country and it plays an important role For driving the state of Indian economy. The impact of agriculture is not only on the production of food grains, vegetables and fruits, but on so many agriculture dependent Industries which get its raw material from agriculture sector. A good monsoon would drive the SENSEX raging as bull, while floods or other such calamities would bring it to a grinding halt. For recent years, Indian state of agriculture has improved a lot and it has started using state of art farming methodology, genetically improved seeds and cross bred varieties for high yield.

Nature of Work :-Following are major career areas For the field of agriculture:-

Agricultural Research ` Business  ` Industry ` Education `  Journalism `Services  ` Banking ` Farming `Conservation ` Engineering ' Management'

Employment opportunities for agricultural subjects:-
Agriculture is composed of a vast of subjects that includes fully or partly the elements of the basic sciences. Seed industry is a harbor of all major subjects of agriculture that blends the success of seed business. The subjects include as below-

1. Genetics & plant breeding: Release of quality cultivars needs a confirmed assurance from qualified students from this department. Breeding is a creation of variation is strength for any seed producing organization. The qualified breeder should have a creative and selective eye towards selecting plants for breeding programmes. Students from this department have a good opportunity because of fundamental knowledge during course of study.

2. Agronomy: Agronomy subject is used to call as “mother of agriculture” that teaches all fundamental aspects of agriculture. Before release of the new hybrid seeds or varieties, it is mandatory for the seed producers to test the new cultivars for multi-location trials to understand the their adaptabilities For different agro-climatic conditions. It is most important for the countries like India, which have wide variability of the soil as well as climatic parameters. Agronomists also have opportunity to look after the seed production unit, where agronomic managements confirm the quality of seeds and productivity.

3. Entomology: Damage of crop by Insect-pests is common to any crop environment. The entomologist will design crop wise admissible Insect levels, various crop protection techniques (Laboratory & Screening methods) and crop - Insect specific control measures. Each new hybrid has to be tested for their resistance to the economic pests both For lab and field condition through trials.

4. Agricultural Biotechnology: Biotechnology has paved the way for the Introduction of transgenic crops. Biotechnologists can determine seed quality parameters faster through simpler molecular techniques and Genetic marker studies. They also play a major role For determination of seed purity, occurrence of resistance genes (for both biotic and abiotic stress), confirmation of transferred genes through crosses done For field conditions and particularly For characterizing evolved hybrids on molecular levels.

5. Seed Technology: Seed technologists have great responsibilities to monitor supply of best quality seeds, production. Quality testing for different parameters like germinations, physical purity, moisture contents are need to be assessed and maintained to a certain standards prescribed on Seed act before final packaging for marketing. Students from this department can take a lead For this regard.

6. Plant Pathology: Disease is one of the major constraints For getting high yields or quality products, the Intensity of which varies across the seasons and agro-climatic conditions. Pathologists have a major role to take the challenge to find out the feasible solutions. They need to study the level of tolerance/ resistance of newly developed hybrids before their release for marketing.

7. Soil Science: Students from soil science also have enough opportunity in the seed Industry For studying the plant-soil relation and their Interactions. Their fundamental knowledge can pave the way for in-depth analysis on adaptability of hybrids For different soil types.

Educational level/ Degree required:- ·Students who have completed doctorate or masters in specialized subjects have ample opportunity to enter into the research level, which is the key strength of any seed industry. However, marketing is also another scope for masters. Moreover, this depends purely on level of interests of profession they used to prefer.  Agriculture graduate on the other hand, can opt marketing or production. They have least opportunity to enter into the research as they lack the field of any specialization.  However graduate can find better opportunity and monetary benefits For marketing or strategic management after completion of management degree/ diploma.

Entrance examination:- ·XII students interested for agriculture subjects, have to appear ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) entrance test for getting admission at graduation For agril. university all over the country. Besides, universities also conduct their own entrance tests Similarly, agril. graduates who are interested for masters have to appear ICAR-led Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) examination and to get higher rank to opt for good institutions. Masters students can take admission For PhD For same university or can appear IARI-led all India examination.