<p class="title">Areca growers grumbling about mounting losses and acute scarcity of skilled farm hands can now look to the future with a hope.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Campco (Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative) Limited is all set to implement its vision of tackling acute scarcity of farm hands by organising its first in-house training for youth at Regional station of CPCRI in Vittal from December 5 to 9.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The selected youth will be given stipend, free food, accommodation and trained in climbing areca palms,” Campco President S R Satishchandra said on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He told reporters at Varanashi towers, Campco’s head office, that the participants would also be trained on other skills like spraying, harvesting arecanuts, knowledge on first aid among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The training programme being implemented with the help of Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Universityof Agricultural and Horticultural Science (UAHS) will be restricted to about 35 members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The initiative will not only solve the acute scarcity of farm hands but also will provide gainful employment for unemployed youth," Satishchandra stressed.</p>
<p class="title">Areca growers grumbling about mounting losses and acute scarcity of skilled farm hands can now look to the future with a hope.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Campco (Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative) Limited is all set to implement its vision of tackling acute scarcity of farm hands by organising its first in-house training for youth at Regional station of CPCRI in Vittal from December 5 to 9.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The selected youth will be given stipend, free food, accommodation and trained in climbing areca palms,” Campco President S R Satishchandra said on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He told reporters at Varanashi towers, Campco’s head office, that the participants would also be trained on other skills like spraying, harvesting arecanuts, knowledge on first aid among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The training programme being implemented with the help of Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Universityof Agricultural and Horticultural Science (UAHS) will be restricted to about 35 members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The initiative will not only solve the acute scarcity of farm hands but also will provide gainful employment for unemployed youth," Satishchandra stressed.</p>
