 on various Facebook handles of Twin Win and Inspiration School. As you can see, Dr. Sheetal Sharma, you are about to meet her in a minute. She is with the Honorable Prime Minister and many Chief Ministers and even with dignitaries from her own background. Then we can also see in the next slide that there's an India Denmark workshop on digital agriculture and Dr. Sheetal Sharma can be sitting in the benches. Next is Assar Consultation Meet, which is being held from 21st to 23rd of August 2019, which was held rather, and she can be seen here as well. And then she is a Japan Rational Awardee for Young Agricultural Researchers. So this makes this session very interesting and I know that all the students who are interested in science or even those who are not interested in science would love to meet her because as the tagline here says that there should be many heroes. So we have heard about heroes and then there are heroes who make everyone proud and she is one of them. In Indian tradition, there is a beautiful line which says Narse Narayan and I would like to tweak it a little bit and say in many contexts, in people like Dr. Sheetal Sharma, we have Narise Narayani. Getting up at 5 a.m. in the morning to go and take data from the field. Growing the crops yourself, knowing how the food comes from. These are few aspects, we never thought about initially but that's how my journey started. After MSC, there are different options that you could go for. So there are Department of Agriculture in every state which recruits people from BSE, MSC, these are called Agriculture Development Officers. It's a very good post, most of the states. But if you want to go for research, then you go for PhD, I did completed my PhD. And I think thankfully after completion of my PhD, I was interviewed by International Research Institution and recruited over here. Hello, ma'am. It's an honor to be interacting with you. So I remember this one time, I met a student of class 7th. She asked me and she said to me that I understand what engineers do. They work with softwares and all, but I don't really get what researchers do. And I'm really sure that most of the students here have this question on their mind. So if you could elaborate on your daily work obligations, it will be great. Sure. So as we say research, it's searching which is existing but searching it with the perspective that how that will be applicable in the current scenario. So my everyday routine, if you say it starts, nowadays it starts with opening the laptop and taking my position to start with. We do one session with my staff which is distributed across the globe. So I have staff right now in Myanmar, in Indonesia, in Bangladesh, sitting in Orissa, sitting in Varanasi. So we have one session where we interact and we kind of brainstorm on the research that we are doing, the experiments that we have put in the field, how they are going, what we are noticing. Is there something that we have to be concerned about? Just an example that we started an experiment on rice and there was no rain. So whether we need to include some drought tolerant varieties in those areas for the farmers because they are suffering that the rain patterns are changing. And then we brainstorm on what need to be done, what also we have to think beyond these times. Agriculture is something that will continue. You can live without cars, you can live without computers but you can't live without food. So you have to do something about it. And then I look at the, so you have to read a lot. We read a lot of research papers, journals, newspapers on what is happening. Think about it like how you can make a difference into it. How your work will help in changing something that is happening now or will happen in future. So just an example, we are working on developing varieties which can grow in high CO2 levels and under high temperatures. So that will be the scenario in future. And then we plan our research, make sure everything is happening on time. We can't do everything. So we work in a multidisciplinary team. I'm a soil scientist, I work with an agronomist, I work with an economist. So agriculture is a very broad subject but it has a lot of sub-subjects. So there are agriculture economists, there are agronomists, there are breeders, there are genetics people, there are social people who also interact with the farmers, how to take the technology to the farmers. Just developing it will not make a difference. So yeah. I'll ask one more question here that when it is said that if you want to achieve something that you have never had, you'll have to do something that you have never done. So I would like to request you to give this message to students that what kind of skills should they actually work upon to become like a scientist in a field like agriculture? So what are those essential skills? Okay, so in India scenario, the first thing is that you have to take a science subject doing plus one and plus two. Start looking for universities and institutions who offer these programs. And most of them are entrance test. There is also Indian Council for Agriculture Research, which is a main body of agriculture in India and they have institutions all over India. And even the state universities are affiliated to them. So they also put in entrance exams and you can apply and you also get scholarship for the studies. But finally, I mean, whatever subject you take, the key is hard work. It doesn't mean that you have to be very intelligent. What you need is the hard work and being persistent and having a passion for what you do. If we don't have a passion for what I am doing, I'll not be happy with what I'm doing. And if you see that you are making a difference for people like the farmers, who are at a very grassroot level, that's what encourages passion in you. So I think that's the key, hard work persistent and having a passion for what you do. One student like Ranjana who is asking a question, can you please tell what are the main subjects that are there in BSc agriculture? Okay, so BSc agriculture is a professional degree. And when you enter into agriculture, it's similar to any other. So it's more broad at that time at a BSc level. So we are taught everything that is related to agriculture, which is breeding, plant breeding, genetics, entomology, which is a study of insect and pest that affect the crop. We study agriculture economics, which is like what is the economics of producing the crop. We even study veterinary sciences because those are directly related to agriculture. We study home sciences, which are also related to agriculture. Then we have pathologist, which is the study of diseases. Agronomy, which is the study of basic crop production. Soil science, which is a study of soil, what is happening in the soil, what reactions are there? So can you list out some of the professions that students can take up in the research field or the science field after that? Okay, so there are many actually. So it's not only agriculture. After you complete your science, we have now a good score for biotech, it's growing. There's a very good scope in genetics, because of the climate change, we need new plant species. There is a very good scope in economics actually, agriculture economics, where there is a need to understand the value chain. And they have a good scope in international institutes like FAO, if you talk about World Bank and different international organizations. This is there. Even if you are doing PhD in chemistry, there is a big scope in everything that you do. So there are a lot of streams that you can choose from. There are a lot of options actually nowadays that are available and with good career scope. Exactly. Yes ma'am, thank you so much. Last but not the least, the environmentalist, I think you have on the panel. Yeah, policy making and yeah. Yeah, so I think these are some of the good scopes that you have, you know. And yeah, just I think just go for it, look at it. It's all about reading and knowing things. So be vigilant, keep your eyes, ears open and you'll find your career.