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If they form the FPOs, the agriculture will become a large scale venture and it will provide them more income. If a survey is taken up, it will come to light that 2 % to 3 % of youths will be inclined to take up agriculture as their profession. TRICHY: Expressing concern over the deteriorating trend of youngsters not turning up to take up agriculture , spiritual leader Jaggi Vasudev said that there will be a dearth of farmers in the country in a decade with the on-going trend, in Trichy on Saturday.“There is a danger looming large, if we don’t make agriculture a profitable business. If the farmers witness that there is a development in their economy, everyone will take it up,” he said.Agriculturist known for Zero budget farming – Subhash Palekar will impart the training to 3000 odd farmers in the program.State agriculture minister R Doraikannu, state tourism minister Vellamandi N Natarajan and several others participated in the inauguration function. If we don’t learn the agriculture from the farmers now , there will be no one skilled in doing cultivation in the country in the next ten years,” said Isha Foundation founder Jaggi Vasudev in a press meet after the inauguration nine day training workshop on natural farming in Trichy today.The spiritual leader batted for the chemical-free farming and insisted on establishing more farmers producers organisations (FPO) with the participation of 25,000 to 50,000 farmers to make agriculture a profitable venture.“Since the farmers do the agriculture on a small scale, there will be no profit..