Presentation to MGN Fellows and DSC officials

( West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand,

Odisha and Chhattisgarh)

5th July , 2022

Sowing Skills…
Harvesting Opportunities...

AGRICULTURE SKILL COUNCIL OF INDIA

How has sector been defined for
constitution of the SSC
➢ 263 million people (54.6%) are engaged
➢ Over half of them are now agricultural labourers.

Total Agricultural Workers expected to decline by 28% to

190 million (2022)

➢ Largest producer of milk (188 MMT)

➢ Second largest producer of fish (6.3% of global fish
production)
➢ Second largest producer of fruits and vegetables.

➢ Only 18.5% of the workers were skilled

➢ 0.5 % < have formal technical education.

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 Emerging Agriculture

Huge demand led growth in several sectors. Some rapidly emerging new job segments:
• Dairy, Fisheries, High Tech Horticulture, Poultry, Meat
• Farm Mechanization, Micro Irrigation etc
• Protected Cultivation ( Modern Green House, Hydroponics etc) , Plant Tissue Culture
• Bamboo, Honey, Medicinal & Herbal, Organic etc
• Agri Warehousing, Cold Chain, Agri Logistics & Supply Chain
• e-auction for Agri market & Commodity Exchanges
• New requirements in Seeds/HYVs, Pesticides and BioFertilizers
• Alternate energy (Solar, Biomass etc)
• Farm Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Livestock Farming Technology, Precision Farming, Hi-
Tech Horticulture harvesting
• Digital & Agriculture Technology , Weather Forecasting, Sensors & Drone Technoloy, GIS, Farm
Advisory services through application of GIS,Mobile Apps. Robotics in harvesting and Milking,

Modernization of Agriculture Traditional Practices leading to development of emerging low cost

Agri-technology involve application of various sectors like IT, Electronics, Finance etc. e.g. Risk
Management, Insurance & Financial Management, Leverage IT for cropping efficiency, market
access ,Climate change and risk Mitigation , Commodity management , Animal Waste/crop
reside aggregation and Solar Pump etc.

Great Opportunity to Skill Youth for employment in High demand Jobs & Self Employment
and planning for skill development in these segments
Agriculture Skill Council of India

Name of the SSC Agriculture Skill Council of India

Name of CEO, with complete Dr. Satender Singh Arya

contact info

Date of Formation 4th January 2013

Governance structure of the Section 8 Company registered under Indian

SSC Companies Act 2013

Presence of SSC in various Regional Offices at 7 Locations Engaged with all

States and Union Territories States & UT
North Zone – Chandigarh, South Zone – Bangalore, East Zone –
Bhubaneshwar, West Zone – Pune, North East – Guwahati, Central
– Bhopal, Jharkhand
Scope of Agriculture SSC

Food Grains Commodity Market/

(Cereals, Agri Inputs Dairy Mandis & Agri
Pulses, Information System
Oilseeds )

Farm Agri Warehousing

Cash Crops Poultry
Machinery and Cold Chain

Agri Retail
High Value Agriculture Fisheries
Agriculture Extension ( Backend)
Accomplishment of ASCI
Occupational Standards and
Assessments
▪ Created 186 Job Roles (QPs) & Model
Curriculum with 769 unique
occupational standards
▪ Content for 45 Job Roles
▪ Facilitator Guide for 35 Job Roles
PMKVY & Apprenticeship
▪ Certified 1,67,812 in PMKVY STT
▪ Assessed 5,96,453 candidates under
PMKVY RPL
▪ Initiated apprenticeship for unexplored
segments in 2019-20
Training Partners, Trainer/ Assessor
Quality Assurance & Educational System
Linkage
▪ 619 Training Partners
▪ 9109 Trained Trainers
▪ 900 Certified Assessors
▪ 1,656 schools across 23 states
▪ 221 Community / B. Voc. Colleges
▪ 54 Agriculture and Veterinary Universities
Placement, Demand Aggregation &
Rozgar Mela
▪ 60 % of certified trainees are placed
under PMKVY2 STT
▪ ASCI has conducted 59 Rozgar Melas
Strong Linkage with Other Ministries
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare
• 434 institutes including KVKs, SAUs, DADF, DAC and
ICAR institutes affiliated under RKVY scheme.
• Trained 39,200 candidates (79 job roles)
• 7600 candidates across 17
job roles-MIDH scheme
• ASCI work closely with all
• related divisions of MoA&FW.
Ministry of Rural Development
➢ A total of 8,519 candidates trained for Bare
Foot Technician job role covering 20 States
under MGNREGA scheme.
Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry
& Dairying
• NSQF alignment for all Job roles
• 12,500 Aquaculture Farmers &
Marine Capture Fishermen up-
skilled along with NFDB
Ministry of Defence
& Ministry of Science and Technology
• 3 Regimental Centres and 1 rehabilitation centre
have been affiliated with ASCI.
• 700 Defence personnel certified covering 6 job roles
• Skill programme in 8 CSIR Institutes ( S&T)
Glimpse of International Placements

Greenhouse Managers for Italy Facilitating Agri youth for Jobs abroad

USA Placements : 4 candidates Placed in Poultry (3) Interns trained by Lohia Corp Ltd. Japan for
and Crop Production (1) job roles ( under J 1 visa) cultivation of high quality strawberries
Major Achievements
Awards & Accolades

Always amongst the top 5 best performing

Sector Skill Councils

Ranked No. 1 as per MSDE / NSDC matrix in

2018
2017 2018
Year : 2018
Ranked No. 3 as per MSDE / NSDC matrix in
2019

Ranked No 1 as per MSDE/NSDC matrix in

2020

2018 * Ranking
2019not announced for 2021
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New Initiatives (1/2)

Emerging job roles: New Value Chains, Protected Cultivation, Cold

Chain, Micro Irrigation, Medicinal and Organic, Horticulture, Dairy, etc.,

Technology Jobs: Drone Technology , GIS/ remote sensing, electronic

trading, digital payments, IOT (Aqua), Solar etc.

Climate Smart Agriculture: Improve resource use efficiency &

conservation agriculture.

Centres of Excellence: Four Centre of Excellence: Dairy, Farm

Mechanisation, Horticulture and Fisheries. Industry . One for Dairy CEDSI
already operationalised and Farm Mechanisation in Pipeline.

International Collaboration: Existing German Agri Business Alliance

Promotion of Entrepreneurship: Target to train rural youth as

entrepreneurs
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New Initiatives (2/2)

Farmer Producer Organisation (FPOs): Capacity Building for Sustainable

growth

Skill gap studies: Skill gap studies in a number of high growth sectors

Overseas Placement: Export of skills to overseas market to tap the opportunities

opened up by aging labour force in developed countries.

Promoting apprenticeship with Employers: Formal Sector

Digitisation of Content: Online/Audio Visual Content

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Impact of Industry 4.0 on Agriculture
Skill Trainings

Emerging trends:
 Automated techniques: better execution and productivity augmentation.
Artificial Intelligence to support innovations, business models, and related
farming needs.
Data analytics: redesign business model and bring customized solutions on the
table to churn out meaningful decision facilitating information transfer to the farmers

Challenges in adapting Industry 4.0: Small & Fragmented Landholding; Economic

Viability; Low literacy Level

Up-Skilling on the use of applications-

An inclusive platform will be able to provide end-to-end services for farmers—from
selecting crops, optimizing plantation timings, seeding and fertilization rates based
on plants’ actual needs and regulatory requirements and limits.
Odisha- How MGNFs/DSCs can contribute?

• Long sea coast with large inland waterbodies: Upskilling to Fishery communities in all
coastal districts along with inland districts(i.e Kalahandi).

• Upskilling at Agro Production Cluster(APC): Customised Upskilling programme by

adding digital literacy in agriculture along with domain areas in various crop specific job
roles across identified 12 tribal districts of APC area.

• Women Centric Upskilling Programme: Goat Farming (i.e Mayurbhaj, Dhenkanal,

Kalahandi),Poultry farming (i.e Khurdha, Ganjam, Bolangir, Mayurbhanj) and Dairy (i.e
Bargarh, Jagatsinghpur, Balasore, Bhadrak) etc

• Crop Specific upskilling programme in various districts: Millets, Maize, Oil seed, Pulses,
Vegetables, Turmeric(spices), Mango, Coconut.

• Programmes for Forest Dwellers/Tribal Communities: Upskilling programmes to the

Tribal communities and forest dwellers on Non Timber Forest Produce Harvester,
Sericulturist, Beekeeper in major tribal districts of Odisha
 West Bengal

State as a largest producer of vegetables and jute, second largest producer of potato,
the third-largest producer of egg and meat, sixth in the area of floriculture, eighth
largest producer of fruit and eleventh in milk production.

• Upskilling on production clusters

• Fisheries in different job roles : Upskilling of Fisher folks in Coastal Districts and
inland district i.e Nadia, South/North 24 Parganas, Birbhum, Howrah
• Fruits, focus crop Mango: Murshidabad, Malda, North 24 Praganas, Nadia
• Vegetables( Solanaceous crops): Murshidabad, North & South 24 Praganas,
Hooghly, Burdwan
• Flower: Medinipur, Howrah, Nadia, 24 Pragans(North/south)
• Goat: Bankura, Purulia
• Poultry: Medinapore, Hooghly, Burdhaman, Nadia, Birbhum
• Jute: Murshidabad, Nadia, Hooghly

• Opportunities in urban centric: Amenities horticulture( i.e Gardner)

 Bihar

• Skilling Vegetable and Horticulture with district importance: Example

• Banana in Hajipur, Litchi in Muzaffarpur, Mango in Bhagalpur, Makhana in
Madhubani, Beekeeping in Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, & Samastipur
• Organic farming along Ganga basin
• FPOs for collective group farming in fruits and vegetables with additional
focus on skilling in digital agriculture literacy, managing farm-gate
infrastructures(i.e cold store, ware house, pack house worker, banana
ripening etc)

• Upskilling on Fisheries related Job roles: Upskilling of Fisher folks in entire Ganga,
Kosi and Gandak belt in suggestive job role like aquaculture worker, cage culture
fish farmer, fish seed production, Aquaculture Technical supervisor with focus area
in Biofloc etc

• Goatery and Poultry: North Bihar for Goatery, Central area for Poultry

• Dairy farming and allied activities: All most all districts in dairy farming, village
level milk collection in-charge
 Jharkhand

• Programmes for Tribal Community: Creating opportunities in alternate livelihood

to Tribal community on Goat Farming, Backyard Poultry, Dairy Farming through
structured skill development programme along with upskilling in NTFP areas, Lac
cultivator, Bamboo grower

• Upskilling on Fisheries related Job roles: Cage culture is practiced in 17 districts of

the state in 25 reservoirs amongst which major are Chandil, Maithan, Patratu,
Tillaiya, Tenughat, Konar, Hatia and Kanke reservoirs. Opportunities in Culture,
Capture and Fisehries Assistance related job roles

• Certified Vegetable and Horticulture Producers: North Eastern/Western Plateau

(i.e Ranchi) region has maximum production as well as highest productivity of
vegetable and Fruits in Ranchi, Gumla, Lohardaga, Hazaribagh and Giridih.
Upskilling to the existing famers can be done.
 Chhattisgarh

• Upskilling on Fisheries related Job roles: Chhattisgarh is among top six fish producing
States in the country. Upskilling to Fisher folks in aquaculture worker, Cage culture fish
farming, fish seed grower, hatchery management and worker are highlighted areas for
the state.

• Roughly 40% areas are covered by forests: Scientific method of collecting of food grade
quality of various NTFPs need to focused in skill development. Up-skilling programmes to
forest dwellers on Goat Farming, Backyard Poultry, Dairy Farming and Beekeeping as
alternate livelihood option to reduce the over exploitation on Forest Natural Resources.

• Medicinal Plant skill development: Chhattisgarh Government has declared the state
as "Herbal State”. Bilaspur district leads in medicinal and scented plants in Chhattisgarh.

• Upskilling Vegetable and Horticulture Producers:

• Watermelon is grown on a wide-scale at Mahanadi Basin-Janjgir-Champa and
Mahasamund districts.
• Around Watershed project area in Mahanadi basin( Mahasamund, Dhamtari, Raipur)
climate smart farming.
Other areas of intervention by MGNF/DSCs

• Rural Employment generation ………… Crucial for Atma Nirbhar Bharat

• MGNF can assist in PMKVY Special/ upskilling projects with special focus on Agriculture.
Identification of appropriate Job Roles

• Assistance in SANKALP projects- State funded or MSDE funded SANKALP projects

Convergence with other State Agriculture and allied departments

• Access funding supports from various department of the States for encouraging
Agriculture Skilling

• Close coordination with ASCI for project proposal submission to MSDE/NSDC

• Encouraging Donor agency for aligning their Capacity Building Programmes with NSQF
Channelise contributors/ SME / Interested TPs to ASCI
Budget costing for RPL /STT projects

Sector Sub Sector/ Trades

Segments Included Cat I Cat II Cat III

Farm Machinery, Apiculture, Home Decor Art-Bonsai,
Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Flower, water fall; Minor Forest
Farm Plantation, Product processing and value
Agriculture Mechanisation, Horticulture addition, Natural Fibre product
Precision framing, Floriculture processing and value addition
Fisheries and allied Poultry (Sericulture, Jute, Cotton, hemp and
Sector Diversified Products)
Training Cost Rs 49/hour Rs 42/ hour Rs 35.10/ hour
Short Term Training
Assessment (more than 1200 1000 800
200 hrs) Cost ( Level 3 & 4)
Short Term training
Assessment Cost (more 700 600 500
than 200 hrs )( Level 1 & 2)
RPL Assessment Cost (
900 750 600
Level 3 &4)
RPL Assessment Cost( Level
1 & Level 2) 525 450 375
MSDE RPL model for Fisheries Job role: Mariculture Farmer, AGR/Q4909
(Category I, NSQF Level 4)

RPL
Sr Usual 3 days (Upskilling)
Pay-out Heads Remarks
No RPL Model Rates for 5
days Model
As per the guideline
1 Pay-out to PIA 2000 2000 of MSDE under
PMKVY Scheme
Pay-out to SSC (Assessment & As per PMKVY
2 900 900
Certification Cost) Guidelines
Additional Payout to PIA for Bridge
Rs 49.00 / hour as
Course of 12 hours with average
per Gazette
3 cost of Rs. 49.00/candidate/hour 0 588
Notification for Cat I
(total RPL duration 24 Hours + 1
Job roles
day assessment)
4 Payout to candidates* 500 500
5 Insurance Payout# 77 77
Total 3477 4065

*Can be optional
#Can be optional
MSDE RPL model for Horticulture Job role: Gardener, AGR/Q0801 (
Category II, NSQF Level 4)

RPL
Sr Usual 3 days (Upskilling)
Pay-out Heads Remarks
No RPL Model Rates for 5
days Model
As per the guideline
1 Pay-out to PIA 2000 2000 of MSDE under
PMKVY Scheme
Pay-out to SSC (Assessment & As per PMKVY
2 750 750
Certification Cost) Guidelines
Additional Payout to PIA for Bridge
Course of 12 hours with average Rs 42.00 / hour as
3 cost of Rs. 42.00/candidate/hour 0 504 per Gazette
(total RPL duration 24 Hours + 1 Notification
day assessment)
4 Payout to candidates* 500 500
5 Insurance Payout# 77 77
Total 3327 3831

*Can be optional
#Can be optional
MSDE RPL model for Beekeeper Job role: Beekeeper, AGR/Q5301
(Category III, NSQF Level 3)

RPL
Sr Usual 3 days (Upskilling)
Pay-out Heads Remarks
No RPL Model Rates for 5
days Model
As per the guideline
1 Pay-out to PIA 2000 2000 of MSDE under
PMKVY Scheme
Pay-out to SSC (Assessment & As per PMKVY
2 600 600
Certification Cost) Guidelines
Additional Payout to PIA for Bridge
Course of 12 hours with average cost
Rs. 35.10 / hour as per
3 of Rs. 35.10/candidate/hour (total 0 421.2
Gazette Notification
RPL duration 24 Hours + 1 day
assessment)
4 Payout to candidates 500 500
5 Insurance Payout 77 77
Total 3177 3598.2

*Can be optional
#Can be optional
 T H A N K S

Contact :
Mr Santosh Panda
eastzone@asci-india.com
9667905553