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Senior secondary school students' career choices in Agribusiness in Ikole-Ekiti, Ekiti State: An Exploratory Study

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Federal University Oye Ekiti, Nigeria
  • 2Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Federal University Oye Ekiti, Nigeria
  • 3Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Federal University Oye Ekiti, Nigeria

Res. J. Agriculture & Forestry Sci., Volume 12, Issue (2), Pages 1-6, April,8 (2024)

Abstract

In Ikole-Ekiti, Ekiti State, senior secondary school students' career options in agribusiness were investigated in this study. One (1) public and one (1) private secondary school in the Ikole-Local Government of Ekiti State, Nigeria, made up the study's population. A random selection approach was used to choose a sample size of one hundred (100) senior secondary school students. For this study, a questionnaire was utilized to collect data, which were then evaluated using the mean, standard deviation, frequency count, and percentage. The majority of respondents (59.0%) expressed a strong desire to pursue a profession in agriculture or farming. The level of secondary students' attitude toward career choice in agribusiness revealed that respondents are always eager to learn more about agriculture, they feel it is important to learn about agriculture and invest in agribusiness in the future as well as pursuing a career in Agriculture by owning farmland. The findings also revealed the constraints to Secondary School students taking up future careers in Agribusiness which indicated that agriculture is used as a means of punishment in secondary school thereby making students dislike agriculture and agriculture is also perceived by students as boring. Others are attitudinal problems/psychology of being called a farmer, knowledge of one's personal abilities, and attitudes, peer group constraints, lack of a school counselor, and the parental factor.

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