Vol. 12, Issue 1 (2023)

Author(s):
Darathi Gogoi and Dr. Sampreety Gogoi

Abstract:
Agriculture is widely been regarded as the backbone of the Indian economy, an education in agriculture and allied sectors offers various career options to agricultural graduates and postgraduates. However, it is often seen that admission and seat limit struggle in other fields of education like medical sciences, engineering and compel a student to choose agricultural science. India has one of the best and world’s largest agricultural education system in place (Rana et al. 2018). The country houses 63 state, 3 central and 4 deemed Agricultural Universities (Chandrakant, 2022). Despite these advantages, agricultural science as an academic choice is often not prioritized by the youth. Therefore, this conditions makes it absolutely necessary for one to identify and understand the present attitude of youth towards higher studies in the field of agricultural sciences and also to find out if their exists any gender differences in youths attitude towards choosing agricultural science for their higher studies. With this background “A study on the attitude of youth towards Agricultural Science as higher studies in Dhemaji district was conducted.A sample of 237 higher secondary science students were selected from Dhemaji educational block by using multi-stage sampling procedure and the sample size selection formula. A self-constructed questionnaire was prepared to collect data for the study. Findings revealed a positive attitude among the youth of Dhemaji district towards agricultural science as higher studies. However, no gender difference was found in respondents’ attitude towards agricultural science.