Agricultural Production Technology
SPECIALTY : Agricultural Production Technology
DURATION : 2 years (4 Semesters)
DEGREE IN VIEW : Higher National Diploma (HND)
DEPARTMENT : XXXXXXXX
SCHOOL : XXXXXXXXXXXX
Category : Undergraduate
Mission Statement
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.
Program Objectives
The Department aims 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 future postgraduate studies.
Career Opportunities
Graduates from the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Agricultural Sociology will be endowed with skills that will permit them to 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
- Banks.
- Research
- Government and parastatal agricultural institutions and programmes
Teaching in universities and rural development training centres
Fees
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