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Aspiration of Agriculture Undergraduate Students


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1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), India
2 Department of Agricultural, Extension Education, Shri. Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), India
     

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This investigation was carried out during the year 2010-2011. From 3 Agriculture Colleges, 120 respondents (students) were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected from the students with help of pretested schedule by personal interview method. The result revealed that majority (55.00 per cent) of the respondent students had medium level of aspiration while, 22.50 per cent of respondent students had low level of aspiration and also 22.50 per cent of respondents possessed high level of aspiration. The correlation analysis related to independent variables viz., occupation of parents, annual family income, family education status, academic performance and attitude showed significant and positive relationship with aspiration. While s ize of land holding and size of family showed pos itive and non-significant relat ionship with aspiration. Majority of respondents faced constraints like irregularity of educational tour expressed by 70.00 per cent of students, inadequate availability of text book in college library(67.50 per cent), current agriculture knowledge was not provided (66.66 per cent) and 58.33 per cent of students expressed lack of orientation given for various competitive examinations as a constraint.

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Aspiration, College Student, Agriculture.
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Authors

P. H. Chaudhary
Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), India
V. V. Gohad
Department of Agricultural, Extension Education, Shri. Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), India
S. A. Barge
Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), India

Abstract


This investigation was carried out during the year 2010-2011. From 3 Agriculture Colleges, 120 respondents (students) were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected from the students with help of pretested schedule by personal interview method. The result revealed that majority (55.00 per cent) of the respondent students had medium level of aspiration while, 22.50 per cent of respondent students had low level of aspiration and also 22.50 per cent of respondents possessed high level of aspiration. The correlation analysis related to independent variables viz., occupation of parents, annual family income, family education status, academic performance and attitude showed significant and positive relationship with aspiration. While s ize of land holding and size of family showed pos itive and non-significant relat ionship with aspiration. Majority of respondents faced constraints like irregularity of educational tour expressed by 70.00 per cent of students, inadequate availability of text book in college library(67.50 per cent), current agriculture knowledge was not provided (66.66 per cent) and 58.33 per cent of students expressed lack of orientation given for various competitive examinations as a constraint.

Keywords


Aspiration, College Student, Agriculture.