B.Sc. Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Sociology

Mission of the Department

The mission of the department is to produce well trained, well-disciplined and fully qualified graduates at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels, who are of international repute in the discipline of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension, and Rural Sociology, and are capable of successfully facing all the challenges of these disciplines.

The Objective of the Department

The objective of the Department is to train students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the fields of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension, and Rural Sociology for the immediate consumption of both the public and private sectors. The undergraduate

programme also prepares its graduates for postgraduate studies.

Career Opportunities for Agricultural Economics Graduates

Agricultural Economists are more micro-economics oriented and they easily find jobs in the following sectors of the economy.

• Accounting
• Agriculture
• Breweries, distilleries and bottling plants
• Cigarette manufacturing
• Food processing mills
• Governments and NGOs
• Information Technology
• Pulp and paper industry
• Saw/lumber mills and wood products
• Textile processing and manufacturing, logistics and supply chains
• Leather tanning, foot wear and hand bag production
• Cooperatives
• Research
• Government and parastatal agricultural institutions and programmes
• Teaching in universities and rural development training centres

Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology specialists usually serve in the bottom three in the above list. However, first degree graduates of the department can serve in openings in any of the departments listed above.

SPECIALISATION

There is no specialization in the department at the undergraduate level. At the graduate level, specializations are envisaged in the future to be in Agricultural Extension Education, Rural Sociology and Agricultural Economics. Other possible fields of specialization include: Production Economics/Farm Management, Agricultural Marketing, Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness Management, Development economics, and Quantitative Methods.

COURSE LAYOUT

LEVELS ONE AND TWO COURSES

These are presented along with the general courses taken by all agricultural students during the first two years. The general courses taught by the department include General Economics, Farm Management and Accounts, Agric Cooperatives, Entrepreneurship, and Land Use Economics.

LEVELS THREE AND FOUR COURSES

After the above general courses taken in the first and second years by all students of the School of Tropical Agriculture and Natural Resources, students of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension, and Rural Sociology shall be required to take the courses presented below during their third and fourth years.

LEVEL THREE: First Semester

Second Semester

 LEVEL FOUR: First Semester

 Second Semester: