Varsity students urged to venture into farming sector
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UNIVERSITY students have been urged to venture into agriculture and other sectors to overcome unemployment.
Speaking yesterday in Dar es Salaam when launching a ‘JATU Uni Talk’ program which aims at providing a platform for university students to link together and share their ideas on how they can improve their financial situation while at university through agricultural farming.
Jenga Afya Tokomeza Umaskini (JATU) General Manager Mohamedi Simbano said that the JATU uni talk programme aim at unifying all university students in the country to come together and think beyond their academic qualifications and be able to engage in agricultural activities which will help them to earn while at university.
By Bhupinder Singh
First and foremost I would like to tell my farmers brothers/sisters that I understand and feel their concern regarding the agricultural reform bills that have been passed by the Indian Government. We can feel your anguish and understand what is fueling the protests. We hope that the outcome of ongoing discussions with the Government is fruitful and satisfactorily addresses your concerns.
The government says the reforms, which opens the farming sector to private players, will not hurt farmers but have not satisfactorily addressed farmers’ concerns. So, if the Government agrees and makes concessions to the farmers this time, the issue will prop up again in future. Long term the policies may not be fully in farmers’ interest as other vested stakeholders will attempt to engineer something of this sort again.