Agricultural Students Research Articles

The digital-mediated extensive reading on English Language learning of agriculture students

Reading is a skill that is initially taught in schools. Students are introduced to the alphabet and later learn to read texts. Reading Foreign languages is also introduced when students learn a foreign language. The student requires reading activities that include vocabulary learning. Extensive reading is one of the practical activities of reading. Nowadays, extensive reading activities include reading printed and digital text in e-books, journals, and internet and social media articles. In addition, digital extensive reading research on university students of agriculture is still rare. Thus, research on digital-mediated extensive reading in agricultural students’ needs to be conducted to investigate whether it improves their reading comprehension. This study involved 84 agricultural students majoring Agroecotechnology study program. The participants take an English course. The data for this study was taken from the pre-test and post-test scores and questionnaire. The data will be analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the study shows that the digital-mediated extensive reading effectively enhances the student's reading comprehension in English as academic purposes (EAP) setting, and the students express that the digital-mediated extensive reading provides flexibility, technology utilization, and reading.

Correlation between the profile of agricultural postgraduate students and the level of soft skills

Correlation between the profile of agricultural postgraduate students and the level of soft skills

Prevalence of nocturia in young adolescents among preclinical, clinical, and agriculture students

Background: Nocturia is defined as a complaint of micturition that wakes a person up from sleep one or more times a night. Nocturia is one of the Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) that can be very disturbing for patients. All age ranges can experience nocturia, although the incidence is more prevalent in the elderly. The causative factors of nocturia vary widely. Several systemic diseases, hormonal imbalances, use of certain medications, and psychological conditions can play a role in the development of nocturia. Objective: Determine prevalence and potential influencing factors of nocturia in young adolescents. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted online on students of the Preclinical, Clinical, and Agriculture students at Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia using Google Form adapting the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Nocturia (ICIQ-N). Results: A total of 384 respondents were obtained. The average age of respondents was 20 years. The incidence of nocturia among 384 respondents was 53%. Female respondents experienced more nocturia (67.64%) than males. Conclusion: Nocturia is a common complaint among younger age groups, and is predominantly experienced by women.

Building connections in health and wellbeing education: Qualitative findings of a study with New Zealand agricultural students

Background: As the burden of mental health challenges increases globally, delivering mental health education programmes to at-risk groups is critical. Important factors governing the success of health and wellbeing education include the relationships and connections formed between students and those delivering the education. This article reports on the qualitative findings from a mixed-methods study evaluating a mental health wellbeing programme delivered to first-year agricultural students across two universities in New Zealand. Design: The qualitative data that formed the basis of this article involved an exploratory approach utilising semi-structured interviews with participants who had attended a mental health wellbeing programme. Findings: The study found that feelings of connectedness in relation to the programme and the educators, as well as the material provided, improved engagement. In particular, connection was improved through the use of peer educators from within the target community, alongside considerations of timing, promotion and incentives in the delivery of programmes. Conclusions: Relationships and building connections are crucial when delivering health and wellbeing education. These findings have implications for those developing and delivering educational mental health interventions at tertiary institutions in terms of the mechanisms used to support engagement, learning and integration of knowledge.

Diseases prevalent in Kharif crops grown in Barmer district of Rajasthan, India

In the Kharif season, pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is the predominant crop of the Barmer district followed by cluster bean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) and moth bean (Vigna aconitifolia). Sesame (Sesamum indicum) and green gram (Vigna radiata) are other important Kharif oilseed and pulse crops, respectively. A survey was conducted to determine the status of major diseases of Kharif crops grown in the Barmer district of the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India. Five blocks and three villages in each block were surveyed through a random field survey method during the collection of diseased samples every Sunday for the practical classes of agricultural students of the College of Agriculture, Baytu; in August and September 2023. Per cent disease incidence was recorded on randomly selected plants in a particular field of selected location. The incidence of diseases was observed based on typical field symptoms and later the association was confirmed through microscopic examinations in the laboratory. In survey, yellow mosaic (virus), leaf crinkle/ curl (virus), bacterial leaf spot/ blight (Xanthomonas phaseoli) of green gram;green ear/ downy mildew (Sclerospora graminicola), rust (Puccinia substriata) and blast (Pyricularia grisea) of pearl millet; Phytophthora stem blight (Phytophthora parasitica var. sesame) and phyllody (Phytoplasma) of sesame; yellow mosaic (virus)and bacterial leaf spot/ blight (Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. cyamopsidis) of cluster beanwere recorded with >50% incidence. However; charcoal rot (Macrophomina phaseolina), web blight (Rhizoctonia solani), Cercospora leaf spot (Cercospora canescens) and anthracnose (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum) of green gram; Alternaria blight/ leaf spot (Alternaria sesame) of sesame,sorghum rust (Puccinia purpurea) and Alternaria blight/ leaf spot (Alternaria cyamopsidis) of cluster beanwere noticed with 10 to 50% incidence.

Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intention among Agricultural Engineering Students in Adverse Business Environment

Entrepreneurial intention is an important step toward nascent entrepreneurship. Many studies have been conducted in developed countries, but the key factors enhancing entrepreneurial intention in developing countries still need to be discovered. In many developing countries, adverse business environment hampers entrepreneurial intention, particularly among young people who tend to develop migration intention instead. However, when they are educated, young people have the potentiality to innovate and face risky business environments. In this study, the first to analyze the entrepreneurial intention of students in agricultural schools in Haiti, we collected primary data from a country-representative sample of 281 students studying in 21 Haitian agricultural engineering schools. Following the theories of planned behavior and entrepreneurial intention, we use both statistical and econometric analysis to assess the entrepreneurial intention and its determinants. Despite a turbulent context, the results revealed a high rate (54.1%) of entrepreneurial intention among students in agricultural engineering schools. This intention was significantly associated with factors like knowledge in business plan preparation, identification of successful agribusiness, experience in leadership and a relentless quest for autonomy.In contrast with the fact that when the stakes are high, people tend to be risk averse, results of this study show agricultural engineering students want to bring solutions even in risky contexts with limited resources. This study suggests that, in troubled countries like Haiti, with severe food insecurity, agricultural engineering students represent actors that can help create a promising future if appropriate support is brought to transform entrepreneurial intention into effective business creation.

Agricultural industry students ecological worldview formation

The authors focus on the socio-cultural aspect of "Russian cosmism", according to which this trend laid the foundations of the ecological worldview and a new culture of human civilization sustainability. The article is developed for the students specialized in agriculture. The purpose of the article is to* identify and show the value foundations of this new culture of sustainable development. The methodological basis is the analysis of the texts of representatives of Russian cosmism and their interpretation in modern literature. It resulted in a fundamentally new understanding of the laws of the "nature-society" system in the anthropological dimension. In the modern world, wars remain a powerful factor in the geopolitical regulation of planetary processes. They accompany humanity from the moment of its origin. It must be admitted that so far our history, the history of wars, our culture, in many of its bases, are generated by military activity and regulated by it, which is confirmed by a public opinion and attitude to nuclear weapons in the modern world. An ecological worldview and the ideas of sustainable development determine the worldview of agricultural students. Their personality is formed in conditions of conquering instability and global contradictions, gaining the experience in overcoming the planetary and universal inconsistencies.

Gender Dimensions on Entrepreneurship Pursuit Stimuli: An Appraisal of Agricultural Final-Year Students Enrolled for An Entrepreneurship Module

With the growing thirst to investigate determinants of entrepreneurship intentions and pursuit among youth and students at institutions of higher learning in South Africa, the study sought to draw distinct differences in entrepreneurship pursuit stimulus influenced by gender dimensions. It further investigated students\' views on the most challenging aspect of being an entrepreneur. The study was conducted at the University of Venda, Vhembe district of the Limpopo province. The study participants were final-year students in an entrepreneurship module pursuing various agricultural disciplines. The study used a purposive sampling technique to select its participants, while data was collected using an online survey. The study findings indicated that entrepreneurship stimuli relating to entrepreneurship perception, social affiliation, and academic dynamics shaped entrepreneurship pursuit with variations in gender dimensions. The study recommended championing young, established entrepreneurs for entrepreneurship promotion for enhanced entrepreneurial action among students.

Scientific and methodological foundations of professionally-oriented teaching of mathematics to students of agricultural direction

The education system has been fulfilling its function for many years, creating a system of education that corresponds to it. In particular, we can say about the content of the mathematics course and the structure of the course, teaching methods, use in the traditional form. Currently, teaching a mathematics course to undergraduate agricultural students who are not mathematicians is a problem for teachers. Its reason can be explained by the negative attitude of the vast majority of students of this direction to mathematics: “in the process of studying, students do not understand mathematics or do not understand any stage of training; the lack of simple and reliable mathematical examples that can be applied to a future profession.” Therefore, there is a need to update the teaching status of the current mathematics course.

Assessment of environmental law awareness and pro-environmental behavior among DEBESMSCAT-Cawayan Campus Agriculture students

Assessment of environmental law awareness and pro-environmental behavior among DEBESMSCAT-Cawayan Campus Agriculture students

Formation of patriotic values of students of agricultural institutions of professional higher education

The article actualizes the necessity of purposeful formation of patriotic values of students of agricultural institutions of professional higher education. The author presents an author's understanding of the essence of the concept of "patriotic values" as significant ideas about the Motherland, national interests and ideals formed by the public consciousness and recognized by a person, which are embodied in all spheres of the state's life and are expressed in a positive emotional attitude to the culture of the native land at the level of manifestation of a sense of involvement and love for it, devotion to it, pride and responsibility for it. Based on this and taking into account the context of the specifics of the professional activity of agrarians, it is determined that the core of their patriotic values is love for their native land. It is stated that in the context of the total immersion of modern students of agricultural specialties in the virtual world, there is an underestimation of the beauty and value of the native land, the importance of agricultural labor. In this regard, the essence of the category "native land" and its conceptual significance in the axiology of agrarian patriotism in terms of naturalistic, synergistic, anthropological, figurative and symbolic, mythological and esoteric semantics are revealed. Attention is focused on the opposition of the concepts of "own land" and "foreign land", which helps to clarify the axiological predicates of the attitude of farmers to their native land as an important factor in the formation of their patriotic feelings based on reverence for it. The content and expediency of using historiographical, artistic and aesthetic, folklore and other axiological and patriotic means of educating the value attitude and love for the native land in the process of professional training and in the extracurricular activities of agricultural students are substantiated. It is proved that involvement in local history work, realization of the educational potential of native language training, holding traditional folk festivals, collective creative activities related to the native land, peasant labor, economic customs and rituals, allows to form patriotic values of students of agricultural institutions of professional higher education in a comprehensive and effective manner

Application of axiologically-oriented classes’ system when teaching agricultural students of different cultures by means of social disciplines

The value orientations of students are of great scientific interest from the point of view of the formation of the educational process in universities and are an important subject of sociological and pedagogical research. The aim of our research is to work out a program of value-oriented lessons, connecting the social disciplines as well as curatorial lessons with united axiological topics, apply it in classes with students, evaluate its effectiveness and efficiency to increase the level of knowledge, strengthen motivation to study the values of intercultural communication, elevate axiological orientations of intercultural communication of students to the rank of norm. Our validation tools comprise hypothesis, analysis, observation, synthesis, simulation, mathematical data treatment, experimental tests, and diagnosis methods. During the implementation of the program, the personal and social value groups of the students of the experimental group were most influenced. A positive result of working with the professional values of intercultural communication can be considered a change in their numerical indicators of significance. The strategic direction of the formation of a university student is the motivation for purposeful entry into the system of values as universal socio-cultural orientations. The emphasis shifts to changing personal qualities, which eventually enhance the activity of the individual in the socioprofessional sphere.

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Sengkuyung’s Mushroom Business Development

Abstract. The Sengkuyung Group was formed on March 1, 2022, and is owned and managed by 4 people, including 3 UMY students and 1 Agriculture student at the Yogyakarta-Magelang Agricultural Development Polytechnic (Yoma Polbangtan). The land, which is located in Barak 1 Hamlet RT 03 RW 14, Margoluwih, Seyegan, Sleman, is a collaboration between UMY students and Polbangtan students, where one of their friends owns a building for mushroom cultivation. Priority issues in the field of financial management and legality that have been mutually agreed upon with the Sengkuyung Mushroom business are improving financial management and standardizing mushroom quality by managing Home Industry Products (PIRT). The methods used to solve the problems faced by the Sengkuyung Mushroom business are: 1. Providing promotion and financial counseling through FGDs, 2. Assistance in the management of an integrated bookkeeping system, 3. Providing counseling on P-IRT management, and 4. PIRT management assistance. Results of Community Service Activities. The implementation of the Community Service Program at UMKM Sengkuyung went well and smoothly. From the results of the monitoring and evaluation of the pre and post-tests carried out before and after the community service activities, there was an increase in the assessment that partners really understood the distribution permit process. From 80% to 100%, the overall understanding of the Sengkuyung MSME partners has increased.

Agriculture Students' Cultural Understanding During Students' Exchange in Kampus Merdeka Program: A Literature Review Approach

This study investigates the role of the Kampus Merdeka Program in promoting cross-cultural understanding in the context of agriculture during students' exchange. By employing a literature review as the methodological approach, the study synthesizes existing scholarly works to analyze the effectiveness of international exchange programs in fostering intercultural learning within the agricultural domain. The review delves into various aspects, including the impact of cultural immersion, communication barriers, and the significance of intercultural competence in the context of agricultural education. The findings aim to shed light on the benefits of cross-cultural experiences in agricultural learning environments, paving the way for future enhancements in the Kampus Merdeka Program and similar initiatives worldwide.

AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR AGROECOLOGICAL PRODUCTION AND AGROECOLOGY TOOLS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AZORES

Agroforestry systems have assumed increasing importance in the occupation of the territory of mainland Portugal in recent decades. These are systems that concern areas occupied by different forest species associated with plant and/or animal production activities. And why not introduce this system in the fruiticulture sector in the Azores, when there are an ecological perspective, aiming not only to maximize production, but to optimize the total agroecosystem, including its sociocultural, economic, technical and ecological components. While this production system is being initiated in the Azores, the University of the Azores works with agricultural science students reserches natural and sustainable resources in agriculture like seaweed, Aloes vera, food waste, ashes, animal manure, algaes, phytoplankton, to encourage students to make choices that do not harm the environment and to improve agricultural production.

The Influence of Intrinsic Factors on Personal Attitude to Start a Farming Business: The Moderating Role of Gender

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the influence of intrinsic factors (proactiveness, motivation, creativity) on the personal attitude of agricultural students to start a farming business in South Africa. This relationship was looked at from gender perspective. Research Design & Methods: An estimated 3,486 students were enrolled for various agriculture-related qualifications in various 27 institutions of higher learning in South Africa when this cross-sectional, quantitative study was carried out. Data from 421 agricultural students were collected through a Prospective Farmers Profile Questionnaire at six institutions of higher learning in South Africa. Findings: The study finds no significant gender influence on all intrinsic factors and also on the personal attitude of agricultural students to start a farming business. The results further revealed that personal attitude to start a business is predicted by intrinsic factors, motivation, and creativity, but not proactiveness. Implications and Recommendations: Entrepreneurial syllabi should aim to equip students with intrinsic factors as these shape the personal attitude to start a business. It is a positive personal attitude that will likely result in a start-up. Farming entrepreneurship, especially among the youth will assist in employment creation as well as food security, two problems that many countries are currently facing. Contribution & Value Added: Proactiveness is one of the most important dimensions of entrepreneurship but agricultural students do not consider it significant in their personal attitude to start a business. Proactiveness should be built into the syllabi for students to be better acquainted with this critical business start-up element.

A TOOL TO MEASURE ATTITUDE OF AGRICULTURE STUDENTS TOWARDS STUDENT-READY PROGRAMME IN EMPLOYABILITY GENERATION

Attitude is defined as the degree of favourable or unfavourable feeling of the agricultural students towards student-READY programme in employability generation. It is the accepted fact that an attitude of an individual plays an important role in determining one’s behaviour. Keeping this in view a standardized scale has been developed to measure the attitude of agricultural students towards student-READY programme in employability generation. A summated (likert) rating scale was been developed. The process started with identifying the dimension, collection of items followed by relevancy and item analysis and checking the reliability and validity for precision and consistency of the results. A total of thirty (33) statements were framed in which finally eleven (11) statements were finally retained for of the agricultural students towards student-READY programme in employability generation. The scale contains total 11 statements, out of which six statements are positive and five statements are negative. The scale developed was found highly reliable and valid.

Comparative Study on the Cultivation of Agricultural Master's Talents between China and Japan

Agricultural master's degree talents are an important driving force for the development of agriculture and rural areas. Improving the quality of agricultural master's degree talent training is an important guarantee for promoting China's transformation from an big agricultural country to an agricultural powerhouse. With the promotion and implementation of a series of national macro strategies such as rural revitalization and modernization of agriculture and rural areas, how to promote the high-quality development of agricultural master's education has become an important issue in the new era. Taking China Agricultural University and Tokyo A&M University as examples, this paper compares and analyzes the similarities and differences between the training objectives, selection system, curriculum system, thesis, and employment prospects of agricultural master's students in China and Japan, and condenses the inspiration of Japanese agricultural master's talent cultivation for China.

Cultural Dimensions and Communication: An Exploratory Study Informing Agricultural and Environmental Science Graduate Student Recruitment

Cultural Dimensions and Communication: An Exploratory Study Informing Agricultural and Environmental Science Graduate Student Recruitment

Students’ Perceptions of the Role of Various Players in Agricultural Technologies and Innovations Development

Technologies and innovations have revolutionized the agricultural industry throughout time; as more technologies and innovations keep gaining prominence in the agricultural industry, there is an increasing divergence of views on their origin, creators, and meaning among scholars across the scientific fields. Students in agricultural programs emerge from different fields in the agricultural disciplines; as a result, they have different exposure and experience with different technologies and innovations. Their varied backgrounds influence how they define, explain, and conceptualize technologies and innovations in agriculture, giving rise to varied perceptions of who should be recognized and who should not. The present study sought to explore agricultural students' perceptions of technologies and innovations and the role of farmers and extension agents in their development. The study adopted a qualitative content analysis approach by analyzing the views expressed by seventeen students from two different universities. The results showed that agricultural students have varied perceptions of what technologies and innovations represent in agriculture. Most of the students perceived technology as equipment and tools, and innovation as improved techniques and as a discovery of new methods. They also had conflicting views on the role played by the farmers, extension agents, and researchers in technology and innovation development. While the majority viewed farmers as adaptors of technologies and innovations, none viewed extension agents as contributors to technologies and innovation development rather than as disseminators. Our findings suggest a lack of knowledge in the collective role played by farmers, extension agents, and scientists in technology and innovation development. The repercussion of this is that it may contribute towards limited inclusion of diverse perspectives in technology and innovation creation and dissemination, which may affect sustainable agricultural development.