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Attitudes of Students in Faculty of Agriculture of Cairo University towards work in agricultural field اتجاه طلاب کلية الزراعة بجامعة القاهرة نحو العمل في مجال الزراعة

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Agricultural Extension and Rural Society

Abstract

The research aimed to identify level of attitude of second- level students towards working in the agriculture field at Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University. It highlighted difference between Students' attitudes to work in this field according to place of residence (rural/urban) and gender (male/female). It also revealed degree of preference for accredited study programs. In addition to sources of information of respondents related to working in this field. It mentioned respondents' opinions about reasons of abstaining from working in this field. The study sample was selected among second- level students who were 661. The size of sample reached 100 respondents. Data were collected during January 2021, using an electronic questionnaire. Data were presented and analyzed using frequencies, percentages, range, standard deviation, arithmetic mean, Cronbach's alpha coefficient, Pearson's Simple Correlation Coefficient, Chi-Square test and "t" test. Results shown that almost half of respondents belong to positive attitude category, while one third of them belong to negative attitude. and more than a fifth of them belong to neutral attitude. There was a significant relation between degree of attitude of respondents and general grade of first academic level, degree of knowledge of national agricultural development projects, exposure to information sources, courses' contribution to identifying work in agricultural field and family's possession of agricultural land and desire to own a reclaimed land. Finally, reasons of abstaining from working in agricultural field were low wages, low perception of society to workers and shortage of job opportunities after graduation.

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10.21608/sjas.2021.64140.1071

Keywords

Attitudes of Students, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, agricultural field

Authors

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Ehab

Last Name

Heikal

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Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension Dept. Faculty of agriculture, Cairo University

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dr_ehab_heikal@yahoo.com

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Salwa

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Abd El-Fatah

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Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension depet. Faculty of agriculture, Cairo University

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3

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1

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25269

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-02-21

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2021-06-01

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329

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348

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2535-1796

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2535-180X

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916

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Scientific Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://sjas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Attitudes of Students in Faculty of Agriculture of Cairo University towards work in agricultural field اتجاه طلاب کلية الزراعة بجامعة القاهرة نحو العمل في مجال الزراعة

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22 Jan 2023