Agriculture should be taught When you think about, what would happen if there were no such thing as farmers? Then who would get up at the crack of dawn to milk cows, who else would bother to go out and plant a crop? This is why farming should be taught to every student. Teaching students from a young age will teach them the importance of farming, and they may even become a farmer in the future.

Not only should agriculture be taught in schools, but our children need to get in contact with the soil and make things grow. Ashwini Darekar This is a very important topic you are asking about.

Agriculture should be taught When you think about, what would happen if there were no such thing as farmers? Then who would get up at the crack of dawn to milk cows, who else would bother to go out and plant a crop? This is why farming should be taught to every student. Teaching students from a young age will teach them the importance of farming, and they may even become a farmer in the future.

School should be heart of agriculture

Curriculum it's about selecting. Traditionally selection what knowledge it's important to transmit to the next generation or, similar, what knowledge it's important to this particular student to learn.

We can, to, consider a more cultural approach, if we conceptualize curriculum as a cultural educational project.

Either way, curriculum it's about knowledge. Young supports the idea that school should be able to allow students to learn things that they will not be able to learn otherwise, so curriculum should be focus in what he calls "powerful knowledge".

Learning about nature and the environment, it's easily acceptable to be in the curriculum. Agriculture, in particular, it's harder to consider a concrete answer or approach.

No doubt, children should make their hands dirty while in contact the soil, but can we really say that's the purpose of school? Probably in some areas agriculture it's central in the life of the community, so it is important to schools get involved with that. Other places will select agriculture as a experience for preschool childrens, and that seems reasonable to me as well.

But I do believe it's hard to give a universal answer, it needs to be answered in relation to the context.

Every school should have a garden (vegetables, fruits, flowers etc) which is tended and maintained by the students + produce harvested by students and consumed by local community. This will develop not only an understanding of the importance of agriculture but also a community spirit. Do not limit learning to the knowledge and skills necessary for industry and/or business. Tertiary education can take care of that.

Good topic Ashwini Darekar.

Yes ,Agriculture Education is very imported in schools . Learning to the knowledge and skills necessary for the importance of agriculture principles .

Thank you

Yes

Agriculture is a big idea and practices many different ways around the world. The question assumes that agriculture isn't being taught in schools at the moment, which I question. If students are being taught about how others live around the world (social science), about how commerce works (business), about life cycles (science), agriculture, at least elements of it, are already being taught in schools.

It is very important for young people to be in contact with nature and if they have the experience of seeing a plant grow and take care of it, this is very positive. However, the teaching of "agriculture" as technology, should not be in all schools

Yes, but the discipline is changing significantly in the United States. Here's a basic rundown of the type of programs and the areas of emphasis under an Agriculture Science or similar agriculture degree.

In the US, agriculture is alive and well in our high schools, community colleges, and universities. We'll start with the high school programs. At the high school level organizations such as the Future Farmers of America (FFA) and other organizations give the student opportunities for competition, exploration, and networking with others of similar interest.

The education programs vary from dedicated technical/trade training programs to academic (theoretical) programs of study. The big difference, of course, is with the focus is on the practical elements of agriculture or on the management and/or theoretical side of the discipline.

My first full time job in academia was with a rural community college in Kansas, where we had a strong agriculture program. The program concentrated in the traditional Ag Sci areas, such as agronomy, botany, etc., but also had some specialization classes such as Farm Computer Applications and Ag Advertising and Marketing.

At the university level, the agriculture science programs have many areas of emphasis or concentration. As an example, Cornell University* has one of the better programs, and their concentrations include:

• Animal Science
• Business Management and Policy
• Education and Society
• Organic Agriculture
• Sustainable Cropping Systems Management

We recognize that the traditional "family farm" is shrinking, and many past owners now find themselves as an employee of the major agriculture corporations. We also know that the family farm is often converted into a corporate entity unto itself.

I think it is depend on the needs of the school and its environment. In Indonesia, we don't really have agriculture but instead, we do have Living Environmental Education (Pendidikan Lingkungan Hidup) being taught in high school. I have not searched yet the real purposes of the government applying this in our local curriculum, but the thing that I learned from that subject was; it helped me to realize the importance of keeping the environment safe. Through that subject, we as students, were demanded to plant such an hydroponic, or another plant as the proof that we committed to love our earth.

Therefore, applying the curriculum, we should look on the context of the school and its environment. I suggest you to try to internalize the essence of agriculture and the relationship with your school context. If it is needed to be apply, urgent, and brings a lot of advantages, I suggest you to do so :)

Agriculture is the heart of every nation. And school is the heart of agriculture (@A. K. Mishra). While a country relies on its national sustainability in agriculture, schools, on the other hand, keep agriculture pulsating through development and discoveries of new technologies and machineries to enhance agricultural productivity.

Very good question. The much needed reform in education (at both school level & university level) requires inclusion of few agriculture theoretical & practical courses. These courses will give lifelong advantages for the students in the "green" environment of the future that we are looking for. In fact, there may be immediate results as what happened with one of my students : I was an adviser to chemistry students helping them with selecting courses each semester. One of them had a problem in finding a free elective course which suited his schedule. At that time (in the 1980s), students were allowed to register any university course so I suggested (Bee Farming) which was a course taught by the agricultural department then.

The student was smart enough to start his own project of producing honey in his father's land & he became rich quick ! He did not finish up as a school teacher of chemistry with a low salary.

I live and teach in a rural area. Farming in the United States is not only an art, but a science as well. Many of the farms here are multi-million dollar corporations. With the advent of chemical fertilizers, ethanol, cross breeding cattle and plants, education become essential.

Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. It must be taught in schools to make students aware of this discpline

Agriculture knowledge should be most important part of curriculum of students. It is the basic thing we need for our survival.

Yes. Agriculture is already optional subject in Punjab School Education Board syllabus of Matric and senior secondary. So, It should be taught in those schools also.

Agriculture plays important role in economy of country ...stufents must be taught in schools