Impact of Agricultural Education on Students’ Career Choice: A Survey

Authors

  • Adebayo Omotosho University of Potsdam
  • Asani Emmanuel Landmark University
  • Peace Ayegba Landmark University
  • Joyce Ayoola Landmark University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i03.11260

Keywords:

agricultural education, student learning, academic performance, farming

Abstract


Agriculture has become the bedrock of some growing economy in the world but the discovery of crude oil and other resources in a developing country like Nigeria has led to the extreme decline in the practice. Many youths now have either low or no interested in agriculture and the majority of the people that are actively practicing are the older generation. This study revisits the impact of education on students interest in agriculture as a professional career. The study was carried out in an agriculture-based uni-versity with a state of the art equipment. Our findings show that 64% of agricul-ture students who participated in this survey are willing to pursue agriculture-related careers. Likewise, there is a significant relationship between the student’s gender and farm ownership, with 84% of male students likelier to own farms. Also, our results have shown that students in higher levels have more interests in agriculture compared to students at lower levels and this invariably increases the possibilities of their pursuing agriculture-related careers or businesses.

Author Biographies

Adebayo Omotosho, University of Potsdam

Adebayo Omotosho is lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Landmark University, Omu-Aran. He is a visiting researcher at the Chair for Internet Technologies and Internet Systems, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany. He received his PhD in Computer Science at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in 2016. He is a Seasoned Computer Programmer and has taken part in a number of programming competitions in C/C++/C#. He is a member of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Computer Professional [Registration Council] of Nigeria (CPN), Computer Science Teachers Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology. His research interests are health informatics, computer security, machine learning and biometrics. 

Asani Emmanuel, Landmark University

Emmanuel Oluwatobi Asani is a faculty member of the Department of ComputerScience, Landmark University, Omuaran, Nigeria. His research interest bothers on modelling of mathematical and statistical theories using soft computing tools to solve cyber and information security problems. He has attended and presented papers in both local and international journal with his research efforts appearing in local and international peer reviewed journals. In August 2015, he was honoured at the iSTEAM MINTT conference held at the University of Benin for his contributions to scientific research.

Peace Ayegba, Landmark University

Peace Ayegba is a research assistant in the Department of Computer Science, Landmark University Omu-Aran. She is currently on her MSc degree and her research areas are computer security, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and e-health.

Joyce Ayoola, Landmark University

Joyce Ayoola is a graduate assistant in the Department of Computer Science, Landmark University Omu-Aran. She is currently on her MSc degree and her research areas are computational complexity and software development

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Published

2020-02-18

How to Cite

Omotosho, A., Emmanuel, A., Ayegba, P., & Ayoola, J. (2020). Impact of Agricultural Education on Students’ Career Choice: A Survey. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 15(03), pp. 51–61. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i03.11260

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 03 (2020)

Section

Papers