Scholarship Benefits

According to a January 2012 study, approximately 11% of college freshman had declared a major within the fields of agriculture and biological sciences, based on statistics presented by the National Science Foundation, just in time for the predicted need for agriculture productivity to rise by almost 70% to continue to feed our world’s growing population by 2050. Now, you may think these statistics may be boring or mundane, but I can promise you, the field of agriculture is not! Today it encompasses so much more than just cows, sows, and plow to feed, clothe, and shelter over seven billion people across the world every year, which there is an increasing need for qualified college graduates in agriculture in related fields to maintain. Now, …show more content…
In addition, I also know that through this, I am not only making a difference on and the lives of fellow students easier, but are in turn making a difference upon agriculture in my home state to prevent the situation above and to keep the industry …show more content…
In the future, I also plan to grow the site, by adding new scholarships as I find them and updating listings, along with possibly adding a search feature and potentially offering a small scholarship to a deserving future agriculturalist in Florida by a former agriculture student, for a future agriculture student just as the site’s motto says on the homepage. As the LA Tutors website says through introducing this scholarship opportunity, “innovation brings together in unique ways our technical skills and out hopes for a better world,” and that is something that I have striven to emulate in this