Assam’s Bodoland University offers course for farmers who never went to school
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GUWAHATIFarmers who never went to school will now be able to study at a university in western Assam.The Technology Incubation Centre in the State-run Bodoland University near Kokrajhar, about 220 km west of Guwahati, has designed a few short-term courses for unlettered farmers, students who dropped out, and rural entrepreneurs to upgrade and improve the rural economy.The incubation centre is a Central project under the Department of Biotechnology of the Ministry of Science and Technology.The courses are scheduled to start in August. One of these is the three-month certificate course in rural technology and advanced mushrooms developed for farmers who cannot read and write.“Some of our farmers may not have gone to school but they have wisdom and practical know...