Bachelor of Science Honours in Agricultural Economics and Management

The Bachelor of Science Honours in Agricultural Economics and Management at Bindura University of Science Education prepares students to diagnose, analyze, and offer sound solutions to economic and social problems in the agricultural and natural resource sub-sectors. The programme also trains students in applied management principles for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling activities in agricultural production, financing, marketing, and human resources in both private and public sectors.

The programme is structured in parts and includes modules in agricultural economics, micro- and macro-economics for agriculture, agricultural marketing, farm business management, project appraisal, research methods, and econometrics. It also includes practical agricultural management modules and an attachment. Research project and final-year agricultural policy and agricultural finance topics complete the programme structure.

Modules

• AG 101 Introduction to Agricultural Economics
• AG 103 Introduction to Statistics for Agriculture
• AGM 103 Agricultural Production Economics
• AGP 101 Practical Agricultural Management I
• AG 201 Principles of Agricultural Marketing
• AG 210 Project Appraisal
• AGM 206 Econometrics I
• AG 209 Research Methods in Agriculture
• AG 301 Research Project
• AGP 301 Attachment
• AGM 401 Agricultural Finance
• AG 402 Agricultural Policy

All applicants have to meet the following minimum requirements for admission prescribed under the general regulations (i.e.):

• Have obtained at least five Ordinary Level subject passes including English Language and Mathematics passed with a grade C or better
• Passes at Advanced Level in at least two subjects as follows:
• – Category 1: Any two of the following, Biology, Agriculture, Chemistry, Physics and Food Science.
• – Category 2: Either Mathematics, Accounting Economics or Business Studies in addition to any one subject in Category 1.