Suggest any three measures through which underemployment in the agriculture sector can be minimized.
The three measures to generate more employment opportunities in the agricultural sector are as follows: (choose any three)
- Investment in Infrastructure - Government should invest in infrastructural projects such as the construction of roads, canals, dams, etc. that brings employment opportunities for local people of the area.
- Increase the availability of credit facilities - By setting up of more cooperative banks by the government in the rural areas farmers will be able to meet their financial needs. If banks remove financial hurdles, it will make the production process more smooth that would encourage more employment generation including self- employment in small scale village industries such as dairy farming, pottery, etc.
- The government should set up more schools and colleges - it would absorb a large number of unemployed in the form of teaching and administrative staff. The government should open hospitals, dispensaries, etc. which will create a large number of jobs in the form of nurses, technicians, etc.
- Encouragement to Tourism- Government should focus on the development of tourism as tourism can give additional employment
- opportunities to people. For example, tourism is the base of Kashmir's economy which has been employing Kashmiris.
- Employment under Government launched Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)- This was launched on 2nd Feb 2006 in 200 districts of India. It has helped
- guarantee 100 days of employment in a year to one member of every unemployed rural family. A person is entitled to an unemployment allowance if the government fails to provide employment to the applicant.
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