An Empirical Study on Challenges of HRD Practices in Indian Agricultural Sectors

The agriculture and allied sectors contributed approximately 13.9% of India's GDP (at constant 2004-05 prices) during 2013-14. In today's globalized world, every country is facing challenges of cut throat competition, privatization, liberalization, economy development and its allied problems. India is also facing same problems along with development of India. To oversee these problems, all countries look forward to the development of industry and business. By this view, business is considered as a pillar for development of the country. In India more than fifty percent of population live in rural area and are involved in agriculture practices. Thus there is a great need to focus on rural India rather merely on business and industry. In industrial undertakings development of Human Resource is carried out by using scientific Human Resource Development practices in India. HRD is one of the important and regular activities of the organization. HRD plays an important role in planning and implementing of rural development programmes in developing countries like India. It has been realized that shortage of skilled manpower constrains developing countries like India to implement their development programmes effectively. No country can realize its full economic potentials without fully harnessing its human resources. HRD is the one of the most contributors in accelerating economic growth in the country. HRD arranges to organize the specialized training programmes in various fields of agriculture and rural development including livestock development, agrarian reforms, sustainable agricultural development, crops production, fertilizer quality control, textiles extension, small industries development, water shed management, development of micro- enterprise, poverty alleviation, rural-woman-in-development, community development etc. for the development of agricultural sectors in India