ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS AGRIBUSINESS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to assess students’ attitude towards Agribusiness in Colleges of Education, in
Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study sought to: - assess students’ attitude on technical skills need for
Agribusiness in Colleges of Education in Nasarawa State. the study has two objectives, two research question
and two hypotheses. The study population was 851 N. C. E students offering Agribusiness in Colleges of
Education in Nasarawa State. While a sample of 265 Agribusiness N. C. E students were used in the process of
data collection. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire adapted titled: Students’
Attitude towards Agribusiness Questionnaire (SATAQ). The instrument was validated by three experts for
content and face validity. The instrument was subjected to subjected to Cronbach alpha reliability test. The data
were collected by the researcher with the help of 3 trained research assistants. The data collected were
analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research question and the hypotheses were tested
using t-test at 0.05 level of significance. With the help of statistical package of social science (IBM/SPSS)
version 23. The result of the study revealed that, agribusiness technical skills, management skills, adaptability
skills, accounting skills and marketing skills has positively changed students’ attitude in Colleges of Education.
The study further recommended that, although, students have positive attitude towards agribusiness, extension
workers can be still used in secondary schools as subject matter specialist (SMS) to speak about mechanized
farming that can improved students’ attitude and study agriculture in higher institutions and as their future
career.