Campco seeks participation of agri co-ops, FPOs in skill development among youths

The forthcoming education programme on the use of carbon fibre telescopic poles in arecanut plantations, which will be carried out by Central Arecanut and Cocoa Advertising and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd, will concentration on youths who want to choose up this as a self-work action, SN Khandige, Vice-President of Campco.

He informed BusinessLine that the cooperative will carry out a a few-working day education programme on the use of carbon fibre telescopic poles in arecanut plantations from January 10.

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Stressing the agricultural cooperative societies in arecanut-developing regions to choose a direct in conducting these kinds of education programmes to enhance the income of the rural youths, he reported a lot more than 50 youths in Kumata taluk of Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district have been earning practically ₹25,000 a month by doing these kinds of work functions in the arecanut plantations of other folks.

Though numerous agriculture cooperatives in Uttara Kannada and Shivamogga districts of Karnataka have taken the direct to organise these kinds of education programmes in their region, there is a will need for cooperative societies and farmer producer organisations (FPOs) in other regions also to carry out these kinds of education in their jurisdiction also.

Raise to income

Apart from building a pool of qualified workforce to have out the pursuits related to harvesting of the crop and spraying fungicides to arecanut vegetation, these kinds of education programmes would also open up doorways for self-work options for numerous rural youths boosting their income.

Requested about the response to Campco’s initiatives a couple years on organising education programmes on arecanut tree climbing for carrying pursuits related to harvesting and fungicide spraying, he reported even now there is a anxiety amid a vast majority of folks to choose up arecanut climbing as a profession.

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The reported cases of folks slipping from trees is a motive for this anxiety. These types of fears and a number of other elements are maintaining the youths away from having up tree climbing as a profession, he reported.

In these kinds of a situation, the use of carbon fibre telescopic poles does not call for the human being to climb the tree. The human being can do spraying and harvesting from the ground only. This ought to bring in a lot more youths to this education, he extra.