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was introduced, have also started their own enterprises and all these are prospering. While the above situation is very encouraging, the disquieting feature is that all the enterprise is restricted to fabrication workshops. The other areas are not showing the same entrepreneurial success. Refer to the following notes. Our Poultry Broiler operation is perhaps the best example of a successful semi-commercial operation. For almost 9 years now we have been operating a broiler farm, where the students invest and after completion of the course, get a share of the profits, in proportion to their investment. We have been distributing profits regularly to the students passing out. Many of them start their own poultry and at least two of them are successful poultry farmers. But unlike the workshop, the poultry has not been popular with the other schools, though they have shown they can operate profitably. The need for day and night presence and the kind of work does not make poultry very attractive. But among our students, more poultries have been started (by our ex-students) than workshops. Agriculture should have been the simplest to operate as a semicommercial operation, but there is very little interest and a lot of negligence. This makes it difficult to operate successfully as a commercial operation. But some areas of this, particularly the fodder crops, have been consistently making good profits. Dairy is also an operation that can be run as a semi-commercial operation with a steady turnover. Like agriculture, it is not glamorous and does not attract students. The Al service for goats is another regular though low-volume semi commercial operation, Rural Development Through Education System 81
