Trends of Graduate students – College of Agriculture and Forestry – University of Mosul towards the working in agricultural extension

• Ahmed Awad Talb1* Ali Ahmed Ghadeeb2 Reem Majid Hassan Ali3 Aghsan Najah Mahdi4 Marwan Salih Farhan5

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This research aimed to  attitudes of graduates of college of forestry and agriculture –university of mosul towards working in agricultural extension in general, to measure their attitudes in every item and to know thecorrelation between attitudes of graduates and independent research variables (age, academic qualification  gender, work status, current residence desire to work in agricultural extension).

Total number of graduates in research area was (375) graduates of college of forestry and agriculture – university of Mosul from 2017-2024. A random sample representing (40%) of society (150) was chosen from same time period. To collect data, a two parts questionnaire was done, first part: included some relative independent variables (age, academic qualification, gender, work status, current residence, desire to work in agricultural extension). Second part: included scale of graduates’ attitudes to work in agricultural extension with (26) items (13) positive and likewise negative. Results showed that attitude of subjects to work in agricultural extension was moderate and decreasing , whereas graduates had positive attitudes towards (I ‘d rather not work in agricultural extension, a job in an office is better for me than agriculture and agricultural extension, agricultural extension doesn’t suit rural youths). Results showed moral correlation between attitudes of graduates towards working in agricultural extension and the following variables ( age, academic qualification, current residence, desire to work in agricultural extension).

The main result researchers recommend necessity to enhance attitudes of graduates of college of forestry and agriculture to work in agriculture by opening their ideas of importance of working in agricultural sector and its benefits to begin similar studies in other colleges of agriculture in other governorates under the same title , to know the attitudes of graduates in general about working in agriculture. Related sides should focus on graduates of  colleges of agricultural engineering by providing them job facilities, urge graduates to pass the torch of working in agricultural sector.

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