Agricultural Education Status And Prospects

Agricultural Education is the teaching of agriculture, natural resources, and land management through hands-on experience and guidance to prepare students for entry level jobs or to further education to prepare them for advanced agricultural jobs. This book provides number of features to enhance knowledge, information and skills requirements in agricultural sector for better decision-making by policy-makers, entrepreneurs and students. It analyses the scope and future requirements of agricultural graduates in various traditional and emerging areas in both public and private sector. The book also explains the present educational facilities at their current levels of output and steps required to meet the future requirements by proper educational planning to ensure availability of faculty in adequate numbers and quality with institutional arrangements for systematic up gradation of their knowledge and skills. It discusses the skill-specific education with clarity of basics as well as hands-on technical expertise among the students almost in all the sectors of agriculture. It also examines the adequacy of institutional Rending and infrastructure and effective management are some of the areas that directly made an impact on quality of education.