This paper deals mainly with the experiences of teaching statistics at the Agricultural Faculty in Novi Sad. Statistics was incorporated into the teaching programmes for students from the establishment of the Agricultural Faculty in 1954. Statistical programmes are oriented to different agricultural courses at the Faculty. Statistical education for agriculturists tries to give them a solid foundation in statistics. An emphasis is placed on mastering a wide use of statistical methods in order to allow the students to apply these techniques in many fields of agricultural science like: field crops production, vegetable crop production, horticulture, fruit growing, grape production, plant protection, livestock, veterinary medicine, agricultural mechanization, water resources, agricultural economics etc. Problems and dilemmas encountered in statistical education will be presented and some ideas on how to improve the teaching of agricultural statistics. It is expected that the statistical knowledge achieved by finished agricultural students will provide a solid foundation for master degree studies in Biometrics. It is necessary to emphasize the important role of teaching statistics to agricultural students for improving their general knowledge and for better use of statistical methods in research work.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education