Relational analysis between agriculture graduating girl’s students and their aspiration towards farming

Abstract

Purpose: Agriculture education offers many opportunities to plan and choose a carrier to its recipients. However, the faculty students do have some plans to pursue and specific career after getting their degree. They do aspire for remunerative job as a fruit of their hard labours and have their own liking and disliking for various careers avenues open to them after graduation. This study shows the result on how to study aspiration of agriculture graduating girl students towards farming. Design/Methodology: The present study was conducted in College of Agriculture, Parbhani under Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani. In this study the data were collected from randomly selected 120 under graduating girl students of IInd semester admitted during the academic year 2019-20. Findings: The majority (60.83%) respondents were aspired to complete under graduation, professional aspiration indicated that 63.33 percent respondents were aspired to become an innovative farmer, 32.50 percent respondents were aspired to develop own family and 40.00 percent of respondents were aspired to do job in multinational company; etc. Annual income, ready to work in farm as an occupation and whether opinion invited in agricultural decision making were positive and significantly related with the overall aspirations level towards farming at 0.01 level of probability. Annual income, ready to work in farm as an occupation and whether opinion invited in agricultural decision making were positive and significantly related with the overall aspirations level towards farming at 0.01 level of probability. Practical implications: In respect of job aspiration, it was noticed that the majority of girl students were aspired to do job in multinational company and in administrative position in public and other sectors, it is therefore recommended that the university may start counselling centres especially for girl students to face different campus interviews.