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There is a controversy about the priority between business research and agricultural research. Some people say that research on business benefits people more than farming. However, in my point of view, building a new agricultural research center brings various advantages.
To begin with, building an agricultural research center helps to maintain the balance between business and agricultural industry of country. In these days, national agriculture is becoming weakened while the majority of people pay attention to business industry. The total area of farming land and the amount of agricultural production has been decreased for past few years. As this trend has been a form of social problem, the university need to stimulate agricultural industry by building a new farming research center. Moreover, there are already a number of universities having business research centers. Therefore, it is important to focus on development of farming by investing on agricultural research rather than business.
On top of that, a new agricultural research center creates a number of job opportunities. A number of students graduated college of agriculture do not have chance to get jobs. As they already accumulated knowledges of farming, the university should provide them opportunities to perform advanced research. Not only that, as the research will improve the productivity of farming, more people will decide to take up farming. In case of Japan, many agricultural research center have greatly developed the overall quality of agricultural production by implementing a number of projects. As a result, the number of people working on farming industry has been steadily increased.
Lastly, universities must invest on national farming. Even though the agriculture does not take a large part in national economy, it is important to invest on agricultural research. As agriculture is fundamental for people's lives, by promoting agricultural research, we can properly control national food supply. According to a recent survey, disregarding national farming may holds risk such as worldwide food crisis. For example, North Korea mainly supplied their food importing from overseas. However, few years ago, when the amount food import decreased due to the national economy crisis, millions of people suffered from unstable food resources and even some of them died of starvation. It shows how investment on agriculture is important for a country.
To sum up, building an agricultural research center will bring a lot of advantages. It will not only provide more employment, but also ensure the balance between business and agricultural industry. In this regard, I firmly believe that the university should build an agricultural research center rather than a business research center. |