With the development of society and the improvement of people's living standards, people are no longer only concerned about the quantity of food, but also about its quality. The high demand for grain "quality" will undoubtedly improve the quality requirements for crops; The gradual implementation of the national "agriculture-oriented" policy will greatly improve the status of personnel in agricultural related industries. In this case, agronomy specialty will become more and more important. Therefore, according to the characteristics of agronomy and its employment prospects, the author made this survey report, hoping to play a certain guiding role in the employment of agronomy graduates in the future.
Introduction to agronomy specialty
The employment direction of agronomy specialty is technical design and popularization, operation and management, education and scientific research in agronomy related industries. The employment prospect in this field is very good, and there will be a great demand for talents under the control of the state.
Business training objectives: This major trains senior scientific and technological talents who have the basic theories, knowledge and skills of crop production, crop genetics and breeding, seed production and management, and can engage in agronomy-related technology and design, popularization and development, operation and management, teaching and scientific research in agriculture and other relevant departments or units.
Business training requirements: Students in this major mainly study basic theories and knowledge such as agricultural biological science, agricultural ecological science, crop growth and development, and genetic law. I have been trained in crop production and breeding of new crop varieties, and have basic abilities in crop breeding, crop cultivation and cultivation, seed production and inspection.
Second, the employment status, direction and prospect of agricultural specialty
(A) the status quo of agricultural professional employment
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 has gradually changed the traditional concept that "learning agriculture is farming" and agronomy is dealing with yellow land. Agronomy specialty is showing a vigorous upward trend, with more and more employment, and its social status and reputation are improving. 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.
(B) agricultural professional employment direction
The main employment direction of agricultural graduates can be summarized as follows:
1. Graduates majoring in plant production are mainly engaged in scientific research, technology development, production and management in agriculture, landscape architecture and plant research institutes.
2. Graduates majoring in animal production mainly go to animal husbandry, animal production and other departments to engage in technical management, production site technical work, scientific research and other work.
3. Graduates majoring in aquatic products mainly go to the Fisheries Department to engage in the proliferation, breeding, preservation, processing and utilization of aquatic products, research and manufacture of fishery technology and equipment, and some go to the ocean. Shipping, light industry, foreign trade and environmental protection departments engage in scientific research.
4. Graduates majoring in animal medicine mainly work in veterinary prevention and control, scientific research, education, production and administrative departments at all levels, animal quarantine stations, commodity inspection bureaus, biopharmaceutical manufacturing and animal food processing units.
5. Graduates majoring in forest resources protection and tourism mainly go to forestry, environmental protection and other departments to engage in sand prevention and control, desert management, production, scientific research, engineering technology, management and forest tourism of gardens, wildlife and nature reserves.
(C) Employment prospects of agricultural majors
1 The agricultural talent market is on the rise.
In recent years, agricultural specialty has become a bright spot in the job fair for college graduates, and agricultural talents have gradually become the new favorite of the workplace. 2 1 century, China may need millions of agricultural science and technology talents. The concept of modern agriculture far exceeds what people traditionally think of as growing vegetables and grains. The scope of raising pigs and chickens has covered ecology, nutrition, animal and plant quarantine, food processing, cloning, international trade in flowers, lawns, pesticides, fertilizers and agricultural products, as well as the development, planning and development of rural society. In advance, job fairs for agricultural talents are held frequently, and the trend of agricultural talents is on the rise. Agricultural talents who have always been relatively unpopular have gradually become the new favorite of the workplace.
With the gradual attention and in-depth development of green landscape in China, talents in agriculture, gardening, greening, environmental protection, landscape design and architectural planning have become the new favorites of urban construction, and are also the hot spots of supply and demand in the talent market at present; Therefore, the green tour and farm tour with the theme of humanity have become the fashion of today's tourism industry, forming an employment chain with gardens and environmental protection; Agricultural talents who have always been relatively unpopular have also attracted much attention from the society in the past two years. Agronomy, once unpopular, has also begun to pick up. In recent years, with the sustained development of rural economy, the demand for agricultural science and technology talents is increasing, and agronomy, as a discipline to cultivate high-level talents in agricultural production, has been paid more and more attention.
2 Domestic recruitment situation and professional forecast
On May 27th, 2005, the first job fair for agricultural talents in Beijing was held in the talent market of the National Talent Flow Center of the Ministry of Personnel. From June 22nd to July 5th, Nongbo People's Network and China Talent Network jointly held a two-week session of the Fifth National Talent Network Job Fair for Agricultural Talents. Well-known agriculture-related enterprises such as Pepsi Food (China) Co., Ltd. and Zheng Da Group posted notices on the Internet, among which Zheng Da Group launched hundreds of vacant positions in one breath. From June 29th to July 26th, talents from the National Talent Flow Center often hold special job fairs for agriculture, landscape architecture, environmental protection and tourism.
According to incomplete statistics, there are millions of agricultural enterprises in China, including more than 2,000 agricultural companies in Beijing. Animal husbandry accounts for a large proportion of agricultural enterprises in Beijing, followed by food gardening, flowers and vegetables. Although Beijing does not focus on agricultural production, many agricultural enterprises have their headquarters in Beijing, and most of them have established sales centers and R&D centers in Beijing. Beijing has concentrated R&D talents, and the market is huge, which has driven Beijing's demand for agricultural R&D and sales talents. Senior management talents are very scarce and cannot meet the needs of enterprises. Judging from the current situation, universities and other educational institutions are the main force in the cultivation and supply of agricultural talents. But the reality is that such people are really hard to find, because unlike ordinary management positions, management positions in most industries do not need special professional knowledge, while agricultural enterprises are different, and they must have rich management experience and a solid foundation of agricultural knowledge. At present, managers of domestic agricultural enterprises mostly start from scratch and lack sufficient professional management knowledge.
According to the forecast of the Ministry of Personnel, there are eight categories of talents in urgent need in the next few years, among which agricultural science and technology talents are juxtaposed with high-skilled talents, bioengineering R&D talents, international trade talents and lawyers. 2 1 century, China may need millions of agricultural science and technology talents. Expert analysis pointed out that the demand for senior management talents in agricultural enterprises is increasing, which is related to the fact that the current national environment is extremely beneficial to agricultural development, and it is also related to the fact that other related food industries, dairy industries and dairy industries are being paid more and more attention.