Agricultural operations, though the biggest economic activity in India employing the largest number of people, is still underdeveloped sector. Mostly unskilled labour with nil training are engaged in agricultural employment, therefore their per capita productivity is very low. Educated, trained and even professionally educated workforce is the need of the day for agricultural economy of India. In developing economies various operations related to agriculture are integrated, and each operation contributes to its optimum for the development of agricultural sector. Activities like farming, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, warehousing, merchandising, distribution, value added production and marketing are some of the major operations fall within the economics of agriculture. Apart from these comes activities like agri-financing, national macro crop planning, micro crop planning and agricultural statistics.
Career Scope of Agricultural Graduates
Slowly but steadily, professionalism is making its presence felt in agriculture sector of India. Prospects of agricultural scientists and educated agriculturists are increasing, and a good number of universities are offering courses in B.Sc Agriculture and postgraduate course of M.Sc with various agricultural specializations like horticulture, forestry, marine fisheries, inland fisheries, sericulture, apiculture (bee keeping) aquaculture, tissue culture, plant breeding, plant biotechnology, environment management, irrigation, soil quality management, etc. We list below the prospective jobs and its average salaries in agriculture sector as a suggestive information for B.Sc agriculture graduates.
B.Sc Agriculture Graduate Salary Prospects
Agricultural Position | Monthly Salary Range |
Assistant Manager-Tea Plantation | Rs.22,000 – 38,000 |
Assistant Manager-Rubber Plantation | Rs.25,000 – 42,000 |
Teak Plantation Manager | Rs.28,000 – 60,000 |
Assistant Manager-Coffee Plantation | Rs.20,000 – 34,000 |
Assistant Manager-Cocoa Plantation | Rs.22500 – 40,000 |
Assistant Manager-Indigo Plantation | Rs.21,000 – 40,000 |
Assistant Manager-Tobacco Cultivation | Rs.24,000 – 40,000 |
Assistant Manager-Cardmum Plantation | Rs.24,000 – 40,000 |
Assistant Manager-Pepper Farm | Rs.18,000 – 36,000 |
Assistant Manager-Jute plantation | Rs.26,000 – 35,000 |
Social Forestry Officer | Rs. 22500 – 35,000 |
Assistant Manager-Commercial Wood Plantation | Rs.28,000 – 56,000 |
Land Geomatics Surveyor | Rs.18,000 – 30,000 |
Soil Quality Officer | Rs.21500 – 32,000 |
Plant Breeder/Grafting Expert | Rs.26,000 – 46,000 |
Budding/Tissue Culture Expert | Rs.24400 – 38,000 |
Seed/Nursery Manager | Rs.30,000 – 48,000 |
Assistant Manager – Horticulture | Rs.24,000 – 40,000 |
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Agriculture/Farm Expert Salaries
Various expert positions associated with agriculture production and business are filled by government organizations, NGOs, international development organizations, conventional medium and largescale farmers, banks and other non banking agriculture finance companies and corporate farm companies.
Expert Position | Mothly Salary Range |
Loan Officer | Rs.35,000 – 100,000 |
Subject Matter Expert-Agronomy | Rs. 75,000 – 160,000 |
Project Officer-Innovative Agriculture | Rs.58,000 – 110,000 |
Irrigation Specialist | Rs.38,000 – 80,000 |
Crop Science Manager | Rs.65,000 – 145,000 |
Farm Engineering Trainer | Rs.50,000 – 105,000 |
Farm Finance Manger | Rs.40,000 – 86,000 |
Food Technologist | Rs.32,000 – 70,000 |
Researcher – Livestock | Rs.48,000 – 82,000 |
Procurement Manager (Farm produce) | Rs.35,000 – 60,000 |
Agricultural Engineer | Rs.28,000 – 55,000 |
Animal Nutritionist | Rs.34,000 – 60,000 |
Agricultural Educator | Rs.26,000 – 48,000 |
Farm Manager | Rs.32,000 – 60,000 |
Fish Farm Manager | Rs.28,000 – 42,000 |
Fisheries Officer | Rs.26500 – 41,000 |
Scope of B.Sc in Agriculture
Individuals have fair chances in both the Private and Public sectors. Here is more on the government jobs in the offing:
Government or Public Sector Jobs
- Financial services like Insurance companies and Banks like AO or PO
- ARS or Agricultural Research Scientist
- Agricultural Development Officer or ADO
- Block Development Officer
- Teaching jobs at well known government universities
- Lecturers
Other jobs
- Animal Husbandry
- Dairy Consultancies
Education Required
In order to bag a lecturer’s post you have to clear Postgraduate level, NET or SLET Most other government jobs will require you to clear a written examination
Leading colleges offering B.Sc in Agriculture are:
- Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur
- Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana
- Jawaharlal Nehru Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur
- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi
- Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad
- G.B.PANT College Of Agriculture,Pantnagar
- *Salaries and benefits are subject to change with time.
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