Agriculture is no longer considered as practiced by the farmers, instead it has become highly technical, sophisticated and automated and as a result, very profitable too. in depth analysis of this course (before discarding it) will tell that one can have the option to pursue wide range of career options in agriculture besides farming (if farming doesn’t interest some). Agriculture is also called farming or husbandry is the art and production of cultivating soil, raising the domesticated animal that is livestock and producing crops.

 
The major degree programmes in agriculture field are veterinary science, agricultural engineering, forestry, home science, dairy technology, fisheries, sericulture, marketing, banking and co-operation, horticulture and food science. There are numerous career prospects like Agricultural Research, Agri – Business, Farming, Conservation, Agricultural Engineering, Poultry farming, Plant Pathology, Aquaculture, Environmental Engineering, Food and dairy Technology.