Integrated Approach to Human Resource Forecasting: An Exercise in Agricultural Sector

This paper has described methodological framework for human resource forecasting in agriculture, especially for transforming human resource needs to educational requirements. It has provided a detailed description of methodological adaptations applied to human resource assessment in Indian agriculture. It has offered a mixed method with a brief revisit to classical Parnes manpower requirements approach and its adaptation to Indian agriculture. The method is perhaps suitable to many developing countries, where data needed for applications of more sophisticated forecasting methods adopted in the developed countries have limitations in terms of quality and quantity.