A specialized course that teaches 3 hours per week. It includes an introduction to agricultural economics and its branches, and identification of economic and agricultural activity and its main objectives. In addition to explaining applications about the theory of demand and supply, and studying some branches of agricultural economics represented in studying the theories of production possibilities, agricultural production economics, agricultural development, agricultural resources, agricultural cooperation, and agricultural marketing.

The concept of agricultural extension, its origin and development, its philosophy, principles and objectives, and the most important public extension systems in the world. The role of agricultural extension in economic and social development. Communication process and methods of delivering information to farmers. Characteristics of workers in the extension apparatus. Planning, implementation and evaluation of extension programs. The process of farmers adopting modern scientific ideas and methods, the role of extension in achieving sustainable agricultural development and preserving. Natural agricultural resources and their conservation

This course provides students with tools needed to measure management performance and financial condition of the farm business. It develops decision-making skills in planning, organizing, directing and controlling farm business. Topics such as farm recordkeeping and accounting system, financial statement analysis, investment analysis, crop and livestock enterprise budgeting and analysis, and machinery management are discussed.

Agricultural Marketing as one of the specialized courses is concerned with studying the concept and importance of agricultural marketing and its role in the agricultural development process, the areas facing agricultural marketing, its objectives, and the marketing problems facing farms, and also studies the economic benefits of agricultural marketing through the study of research methods and the study of agricultural marketing, which includes the commodity approach that is concerned with studying the demand and supply for agricultural products. And the functional approach related to the functions and marketing services that are performed on agricultural commodities, as well as the institutional approach concerned with the study of agricultural marketing channels and merchants and brokers working in agricultural markets, as well as the study of marketing margins and differences and their impact on the efficiency of the agricultural marketing system, and the intervention of the state through agricultural marketing policies to achieve the economic and social objectives of agricultural marketing. In addition to an applied study on the markets of some agricultural commodities in Libya.

This course provides the knowledge concept of econometrics, its historical development, and its relationship to other sciences, in addition to the concept of the economic model in terms of its components and types, as well as the linear and non-linear model, the characteristics of least square method , testing hypotheses and time-lagging variables,their function and reasons for the existing ,a glimpse into the problems of estimating the model using the its least square method,,and the most important tests used in the model and how to apply its solution.

Introducing the project, its components and types of investment projects, especially agricultural projects, carrying out marketing studies, studying the social, economic and political environment of the project, studying the most important stages of preparing the project’s economic, financial and financing feasibility, studying methods of predicting demand for the project’s products, studying the economic planning of projects and their impact on national income, with conducting Financial and commercial evaluation of agricultural projects (commercial profitability), evaluation of projects in light of risk and uncertainty, economic evaluation of investment projects according to national profitability, evaluation of investment projects after implementation (existing projects

The course explains the theoretical framework of economic policy and agricultural economic policy by studying the concept, philosophy and objectives of agricultural policies and their role in economic development, the tools of state intervention in the agricultural sector, the anus and analysis of the types of agricultural policies, which include price policy, marketing policy, investment policy, land and water resources policy, agricultural technology policy, its objectives, mechanisms of criticism, and scientific methods used to assess their effects on agricultural production.

If the student succeeds in the course the student will be able to use economic analysis to describe resources in general, identify agricultural resources their characteristics classifications and uses, discusses the economic characteristics of agricultural resources in Libya , and define the concept of sustainability and the preservation of natural resources and vegetation cover, Economic resources their types, Characteristics of and agricultural workforce, Human resources and agricultural workforce Terrestrial resources Water resources , the reality of agricultural economic resources in Libya and their evaluation, knowledge desertification and methods of preserving and sustaining vegetation cover, as well as knowledge of methods of preserving agricultural economic resources and methods of their developing .