Design of an educational agricultural engineering module for a community outreach program aimed to nurture students interests in agriculture

Wan Idris, Wan Mas Anira (2019) Design of an educational agricultural engineering module for a community outreach program aimed to nurture students interests in agriculture. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Agriculture is a very important sector to ensure the sustainability of food resources in the world. Malaysia is still importing raw food materials such as paddy and other basic needs from outside the country. One of the government policy is to become self-sufficient in food production. A module was developed as one of a way to attract young generation’s interest to agriculture. The design of this module put focus on urban agriculture which are picking up interest in the community and comprises of both agricultural sciences and agricultural engineering. An Urban Agrischool program held on 9 and 10 March 2019 in Sekolah Kebangsaan Sedenak, Johor. There are 40 participants for this program, they are the students from year 5 and 6 from that school. For this program, the greenhouse module was develop and conducted. To know the interested stage of the participants, pre and post survey was given to them. The program received good feedback from teachers and students with increase of interest shown from pre and post survey of 29.2% percent.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User:	Ms Siti Mariam Giman
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2022 07:27
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2022 07:27
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/513

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