AGRIC HUMAN RES DEVT

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The Agriculture Human Resource Development Project will introduce meaningful changes in the way the Center and the states develop and emply human resources with the aim to make them, and thereby the sector, more productive. To achieve these changes, policy and institutional reforms will be carried out. The project will also foster changes in investment priorities resulting from policy and institutional reforms adopted. The project will begin a process of: a) improving the quality and relevance of higher agricultural education and in-service training programs; and b) strengthening the capacity of participating states to develop and manage agricultural human resources. The five year project will be the first phase in a long-term program to improve agricultural human resources development. Each state will carry out university programs encompassing: a) curriculum and syllabus reform; b) faculty quality improvement; c) revitalization of teaching methodologies; d) faculty exchanges within India and with foreign universities; e) modernization of university administration and management systems; f) upgrading of teaching laboratory equipment; and g) establishment of placement centers and student attachment programs to agroindustries. To upgrade human resource management at the state level, the project will support: 1) in-service human resources development and management programs; and 2) manpower needs assessment.