What are the prospects for agricultural employment?

1) Employment Status of Agronomy Major

In recent years, graduates of this major are afraid of hardship, high risk and low treatment, and are unwilling to work at the grassroots level; At the same time, many agricultural units also refused to accept graduates for reasons such as insufficient funds and full staff. These reasons make it difficult for agricultural graduates to find jobs at present. The high input and low output of agriculture leads to the current recession of agriculture-related industries, which makes the treatment of agricultural graduates generally lower than that of other majors.

In recent years, the one-time employment rate of graduates has decreased, while the percentage of postgraduate entrance examination has greatly increased. Take the employment situation of agricultural graduates in China Agricultural University in recent years as an example: 1997 graduates' employment rate is 76.8%, and the proportion of graduates admitted to graduate school is 7.1%; 1998, the former is 64.7% and the latter is12.6%; 1999, the former is 67.9% and the latter is13.6%; In 2000, the former was 44.65,438+0% and the latter was 28.8%. It is not difficult to see that graduates of this major will be a popular choice in the future. Most of the employed graduates are employed in scientific research institutes or seed companies, accounting for 13.5% and110.9% respectively, accounting for 57.6% of the total number of one-time employment.

However, with the change of society's concept of agriculture and agricultural colleges and universities, after 2000, with the country's emphasis on agriculture, the strength and popularity of the school itself have been improved. Modern agriculture relies on biotechnology to improve the quality and yield of crops, and the social understanding of agriculture has changed. Everyone gradually changed the traditional concept that "learning agriculture is farming" and agronomy is dealing with yellow land. Agronomy specialty is on the rise, with wider employment and higher social status and reputation. Especially in 2006, the "2006 Employment Survey of College Students in China" issued by the Central School Department of the Communist Youth League and institute for public policy, Peking University showed that the employment rate of agricultural students ranked first in all majors, reaching 78.38%. From this point of view, the employment of agricultural majors and their graduates is developing in a good direction. Agronomy specialty will have a great development space in 2 1 century.