Career aspirations of undergraduate agriculture students of Odisha

Abstract

Picking a privilege and significant vocation way is vital for the young people of today. Everybody tries to accomplish something novel in their life. The current research was undertaken by selection of undergraduate agriculture students from three different colleges of different universities of Odisha which are Siksha ‘O' Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOADU), Bhubaneswar, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar and Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM), Gajapati to discover aspiration desires of Undergraduate Agriculture students. The research involved final year students of Undergraduate course of Agriculture i.e., B. Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture. Following enumeration strategy for examining, the research incorporated only final year Undergraduate Agriculture students (n=80). The research design undertaken for this research was “Ex-post-facto” and statistical tools were frequency, percentage and ranking. The research discoveries uncovered that the greater part of the students liked to get Govt. work not long after graduation followed by pressing together higher studies, for example doing M.Sc./Ph. D. Building up own agribusiness, to join Govt. administration in non-agriculture division, to fulfil parent's desire and to be a researcher in ICAR or SAU organizations were the additional goals there arranged by inclination. The least reaction was acquired for no other objective as it were. The research discoveries will be useful for higher agriculture educationists, agribusiness strategy producers and organizers to comprehend the nature and degree of profession yearnings and appropriately devise reasonable approaches and advance elective occupations.