The paper discusses the need for high quality agricultural entrepreneurs in the light of wider debates on agribusiness development, and explores these issues empirically through a survey of the entrepreneurial career aspirations of Sri Lankan students from Peradeniya. Aricultural students are more enterprising in their attitudes and aspirations than their local reputation suggests. They neverth...

the readiness for self-directed learning among the students and its role in improving life-long learning skills has been emphasized recently. the present descriptive study aimed at analyzing the self-directed learning skills possessed by the students of agriculture at tarbiat modares university, tehran, iran (n= 414). as far as methodological design is concerned, the study has utilized krejcie ...

This paper describes how a team of university professors and graduate students created a technology-based company (spin-off) to as a means to deliver their research findings to the agricultural sector. The spin-off company was based on the use of new methodologies, equipment, instrumentation and sensors initially developed for various research projects. Successful field tests and positive feedb...

agricultural applied-scientific education that develops the practical skills of students to getter with theoretical education can development of job skills take steps with development of job skills in educational programs in reinforcing the specification, abilities and skills of students. the aim of the study was to investigate the rate of the business and the development of job skills of agric...

this research was done with the aim of investigating attitudes of agricultural students toward outcomes of internship (training) courses. methodologically, the research was carried out through a survey method. the population of the study consisted of all agricultural students of the agricultural and natural resources collages, university of tehran who took their training (internship) course dur...

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of Iowa agricultural education teachers and students about sustainable agriculture. The teacher population for the study included all secondary school agricultural education teachers in Iowa (N=248). A stratified random sample of 60 teachers (schools) was selected, I O from each of the six FFA districts. Teachers in the sample were aske...

this research was carried out through a descriptive-correlation method with the purpose of analyzing the attitude of agricultural students toward group learning and the factors affecting it. the research population consisted of the agricultural students at agricultural college of the razi university (n=793) from whom a sample of 196 students were selected through bartlett's table and by ra...

entrepreneurship willingness that is one of the main preconditions of entrepreneurship behavior is influenced by psychological factors. accordingly, the main purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between problem solving styles and entrepreneurship willingness among agricultural and natural resource students, in university of zabol. the statistical population consisted of 3000 ag...

in order to produce agricultural products, modern techniques are being used in agriculture sector. to respond to the changes effectively, students should prepare themselves applying practical trainings. the aim of this descriptive study was to analyze students’ expectations and demands regarding agricultural operations course in the faculty of agriculture, zanjan university. 114 students were s...

This study was an attempt to analyze the applications and problems of conducting blended learning (BL) in view point of the agricultural students from Bu-Ali Sina University. The study has employed a surveying methodology with interviewing and included a combination of descriptive and quantitative research methods. Statistical population of the study included 500 agricultural students from Bu-A...