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| Survey of Farming Skills Required By Secondary School Students in Yam Production in Delta State, Nigeria
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Patience Yemi OLISA
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Abstract:
The major purpose of the study was to examine farming skills required by secondary school students in yam production in Delta State, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The target population consisted of 176 Agricultural science teachers in Delta South and 101 Agricultural prefects in Delta South. The target population of 277 respondents was also the sample. Survey of Farming Skills Required by Secondary School Students in Yam Production Questionnaire (SFSRSSSYPQ) was developed by the researcher for data collection. The instrument was face-validated by two experts in Measurement and Evaluation from the Department of Educational Foundations, Niger Delta University and the supervisor. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the consistency of the questionnaire items and an overall reliability coefficient of 0.79 was obtained. Four research questions and corresponding hypotheses were raised for the study. Item mean scores were used to analyze the research questions and the Independent t-test statistic was used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The findings revealed that, there was no significant difference between the mean responses of agricultural science teachers and agricultural prefects on farming skills required by secondary school students in yam production in Delta State. It was therefore, concluded that, skills in yam production would create employment opportunities and improve the standard of living of citizenry in the state. Based on the findings, the study recommends, among others, that Government should direct the acquisition centres to integrate the identified skills in yam production enterprises into skill acquisition centres for training secondary school students for employment and retraining farmers for success in yam production.
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