GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT
Agricultural education in Nigeria has as one of its objectives the acquisition of basic knowledge and practical skills in agriculture by the students. The purpose of the study was to explore soil erosion and examine agricultural education students’ ideas about onsite/offsite impacts on the departmental demonstration farm. Three research questions and three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Data was collected using a questionnaire constructed by the researcher tagged Agricultural Education Students Ideas about Erosion Questionnaire (AESIAEQ). Simple percentage was used to answer the research questions and data was analyzed using independent t-test to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results showed that there was no significant difference in NCE I, NCE II and NCE III agricultural education students ideas about onsite/offsite impacts of soil erosion on the departmental demonstration farm. Based on the findings, it was recommended amongst others that students should observe onsite/offsite impacts of soil erosion and use locally available materials to prevent its devastating effects on the field.
KEYWORDS: soil erosion, onsite impacts and offsite impacts