What is agricultural education for?

Students majoring in agricultural education can engage in the teaching of specialized courses in middle schools or colleges and universities after graduation; Or in modern agricultural high-tech parks, agricultural enterprises, government departments engaged in soil improvement, water and fertilizer regulation, pest control, pollution-free crop production, improved seed breeding and other aspects of technology development, scientific research and management.

The main study contents of agronomy education specialty include biology, crop cultivation, agronomy, crop breeding and fine variety breeding, horticulture, biotechnology, agricultural economy and management, pedagogy, educational psychology, vocational education, computer application foundation and so on. The institutions providing agricultural education include Shanxi Agricultural University, Guangxi University, Jilin Agricultural University and Gansu Agricultural University.

Cultivation direction

The major of agronomy education trains double-qualified teachers and advanced applied technical talents with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physique and professional ability, which meet the needs of the development of market economy, and with basic theories, knowledge and skills such as crop production, crop genetics and breeding, seed production and management.

Graduates of this major have traveled all over the country. After graduation, students are mainly engaged in agricultural science education and research in institutions of higher learning and research institutes. People's governments at all levels and their subordinate units are engaged in agricultural education, administrative management and popularization of science and technology, and educational departments and units at all levels are engaged in educational management.