During his recent visit,President Barak Obama pointed out that India is fortunate to have a youthful population with over half of the total population of 1.2 billion being under the age of 30.Out of the 600 million young persons, over 60% live in villages. Most of them are educated .Gandhiji considered the migration of educated youth from villages to towns and cities as the most serious form of brain drain affecting adversely rural India's development. He therefore stressed that we should take steps to end the divorce between intellect and labour in rural professions.The national commission on Farmers stressed the need for attracting and retaining educated youth in farming.