Influence of Agricultural Degree Programme environment on career in agribusiness among college students in Nigeria

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Adebayo B. Abass¹  Edamisan Stephen Ikuemonisan²  Shiferaw Feleke³  Igbekele Ajibefun³ 

[1] Corresponding author.;Adekunle Ajasin University (AAUA), PMB 001, Akungba Akoko, Nigeria;International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), P.O. Box 34441, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;

关键词: Dundee ready educational environment measure;    Logistic regression;    MANOVA;    Undergraduate agricultural students;    Rational theory of choice;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure was used as a universal diagnostic inventory to assess the educational environment of Agricultural Degree Programme of the selected institutions. A logistic regression model, which assumes the probability of respondents' preference for the choice of Agribusiness as a career, was deployed to achieve some objectives of the study. Multiple Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and T-Test were also used. The study revealed that majority of the students were trapped below the poverty threshold, with only 27% willing to pursue agribusiness as a career. Although there was evidence of more positive than negative perceptions about their educational environment (50%–87.4%), there were indications that all the indicators captured in the subscales need a lot of improvement (<88%). Similarly, the study found that students’ perceptions of their learning environment, learning atmosphere, quality of teaching, and ease of the course of study have a significant influence on their choice of agribusiness as a career. The study recommends that there must be deliberate efforts to improve the quality of learning by developing tailor-made agribusiness education, quality of teachers, quality of the academic atmosphere, and scholarship for highflyers among the students to increase their participation in agribusiness.

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