College of Agriculture, Pantnagar
The College of Agriculture,
Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar. It was opened on 17 November 1960 when Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India
, inaugurated the university. It has a triple mandate of teaching, research and extension.
The college has more than 200 faculty members engaged in agricultural sciences. The college has played a role in the
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
(BScAg) is the flagship course of the college.
Departments
The college has twelve departments:
- Agronomy (ICAR Centre for Advanced Study)
- Agricultural communication
- Agricultural Economics
- Agrometerology
- Entomology
- Food Scienceand Technology
- Plant Breeding
- Horticulture
- Plant Pathology(ICAR Centre for Advanced Study)
- Soil Science
- Vegetable Science
- Seed Science and Technology
Earlier, the college also included two departments of
Animal Breeding and Genetics
, which were subsequently transferred to College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.
References
- ^ Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University 1963:14–19 and Charanjit Ahuja "One University That Actually Works" Indian Express, 9 March 1994, p.3
- ^ Singh, BB.Success of Soybean in India: The Early Challenges and Pioneer Promoters. Asian Agri-History Foundation ( http://www.agri-history.org/pdf/successofsoyabean.pdf Archived 8 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi. History of Soybeans and Soyfoods: 1100 B.C. to the 1980s. Soyinfo Center, Lafayette, California (http://www.soyinfocenter.com/HSS/indian_subcon2.php)