In 2012, when Mangurish Pai Raiker began the arduous process of setting up Goa’s first agriculture community college, no one in the government nor his friends believed the venture was worthwhile. Agriculture was on the decline, they said, and young people would not be interested. But Raiker, an industrialist, was determined.
“I approached several philanthropists, but no one was willing to part with money for an agriculture college,” he said. “Eventually, I decided to finance it myself.”
In 2013 he launched the Ramnath Crisna Pai Raiker College, named after his grandfather, after a long. . .