This study was carried out in Mpenja Sub-County, Gomba District. The major purpose of this study will be to investigate the perceived attitude of Agriculture teaching in primary schools. The objectives that guided the study were to; find out teachers’ thinking about the teaching of agriculture in primary schools, find out pupils’ thinking about the teaching of agriculture in primary schools, find out parents’ thinking about the teaching of agriculture in primary schools. Descriptive survey method was used to conduct the study while adopting a cross sectional survey approach designed to investigate the causes of non-teaching of agriculture education in primary schools of Mpenja sub-county, Gomba district. The respondents who will participate in the study include five head teachers, three parents, seven teachers and five pupils totaling to twenty respondents. Teachers, parents and pupils will be selected using simple random technique which gives equal opportunity to all targeted respondents whereas head teachers will be selected using purposive sampling technique. Data will be collected using questionnaire, interviews and observation. The data gathered will be presented and analyzed using frequencies, tables and percentages whereas description of the findings will cater for interview data. The major findings established that the teachers attitudes towards teaching of agriculture in primary schools were positive because agriculture helps pupils to contribute to economic development in the community, helps pupils develop a positive attitude towards farming, enables pupils develop skills necessary for self-reliance and self-employment, contribute to the society developing a positive attitude towards farming and makes urban pupils aware of agriculture. The pupils attitudes towards teaching of agriculture in primary schools were negative. Pupils stated that agriculture involves a lot of farming, natural disasters such as heavy rainfall and drought affect our crops, agriculture jobs have low pay and pupils who take agriculture have no career future. The study findings established that parents had positive attitudes towards teaching of agriculture in primary schools as they said that agriculture should be taught in all education institutions, teaching agriculture in primary schools makes the youth have positive attitude towards manual work. Conclusively, the findings of this study revealed that primary school teachers and teachers had positive attitudes towards Agriculture unlike pupils who showed negative attitudes. The study recommended the need to orient the curriculum into a practical curriculum that would see more pupils developing positive attitudes towards Agriculture, Agriculture subject should be made a core subject like the Sciences and Mathematics since this is the subject that plays a critical role in the economic development of the country among others.

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