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Assessing Pre-Service Teachers Knowledge towards Agronomy skills and Irrigation system. A study for self-sustainability

. Maria Josephine Arokia Marie. S, Subendu Panda, Hari Haran. R, Shikha Banerjee Department of Education, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak (MP), India


Abstract

Education system in India is short of linking vocational skills in curriculum to strengthen the rural community development especially agronomy skill in school curriculum and higher education. This study tends to find the attitude of Pre-Service Teachers towards the agronomy skill knowledge and irrigation system followed in India.  The term agronomy in the paper covers both soil management and crop production. This study limits to the dimension of irrigation system to maintain soil and crops and also the attitude of PST’s towards agronomy knowledge. The study was conducted for 50 PST’s of Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU) of Madhya Pradesh, 50 responses were collected through online mode using google docs. To collect data a questionnaire was developed with two major dimensions for understating the knowledge of PST’s in agronomy and attitude towards irrigation in two parts nine items relating to knowledge in agronomy and its characteristics in part I and sixteen items related to attitude towards irrigation in the field of agriculture in part II. The collected responses were analysed using percentage analysis in terms of items, gender, family back ground and locality as  independent variables. The findings shows that the PST’s have high knowledge about agronomy but they were less aware of maintenance of soil system which is the vital part of the agriculture and their attitude towards irrigation system was also appreciable at the same time it is necessary to make them aware of marketing and teach suitable irrigation system to enhance economic condition. The study recommends that knowledge and attitude is well recognised with them it is only to properly integrate in the curriculum so that it will reflect in an profitable approach.

Key words: Agronomy skills, agricultural knowledge, attitude towards irrigation, self-sustainability, Pre-Service Teachers

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