There are no announcements at this time. Description Agricultural Education provides students with the opportunity to participate in coordinated group and individual instructional activities that are focused on preparation for future careers in agriculture. The agricultural education program is designed to develop technical, leadership, and management expertise needed by middle and high school students preparing for careers in agricultural occupations and to further education in an agriculturally-related field.
Agriculture encompasses various elements of the food, fiber, and natural resource systems.
Agricultural employment is broadly defined to include careers that require agricultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed in producing, managing, processing, marketing, distributing, regulating, or protecting any of the renewable resources. A quality agricultural education program has a balanced utilization of these three core educational strategies. In 1996, a National Agricultural Biotechnology Standards sponsored by the United States Department of Education indicated that employment in this burgeoning new field will be plentiful beyond the year 2000. This national mission and employment outlook provide the framework upon which the North Carolina agricultural education program's curriculum is built.