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

The forthcoming coaching programme on the use of carbon fibre telescopic poles in arecanut plantations, which will be conducted by Central Arecanut and Cocoa Advertising and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd, will focus on youths who want to just take up this as a self-employment exercise, SN Khandige, Vice-President of Campco.

He advised BusinessLine that the cooperative will perform a three-day coaching 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-rising locations to just take a lead in conducting these kinds of coaching programmes to improve the money of the rural youths, he mentioned far more than fifty youths in Kumata taluk of Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district have been earning nearly ₹25,000 a month by carrying out these kinds of job works in the arecanut plantations of other folks.

While a lot of agriculture cooperatives in Uttara Kannada and Shivamogga districts of Karnataka have taken the lead to organise these kinds of coaching programmes in their area, there is a require for cooperative societies and farmer producer organisations (FPOs) in other locations also to perform these kinds of coaching in their jurisdiction also.

Improve to money

Aside from producing a pool of qualified workforce to have out the activities associated to harvesting of the crop and spraying fungicides to arecanut plants, these kinds of coaching programmes would also open doors for self-employment chances for a lot of rural youths boosting their money.

Asked about the reaction to Campco’s initiatives a several several years on organising coaching programmes on arecanut tree climbing for carrying activities associated to harvesting and fungicide spraying, he mentioned even now there is a worry amongst a the vast majority of folks to just take up arecanut climbing as a job.

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The documented scenarios of folks slipping from trees is a rationale for this worry. This kind of fears and various other components are holding the youths away from taking up tree climbing as a job, he mentioned.

In these kinds of a situation, the use of carbon fibre telescopic poles does not demand the particular person to climb the tree. The particular person can do spraying and harvesting from the floor only. This must bring in far more youths to this coaching, he extra.