Faculty of Crop and Food Science
This is the major faculty among all the academic units. The faculty is responsible for teaching various courses in different disciplines of agriculture and conducting research on all aspects of crop production at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It offers courses of four years duration leading to the degree of B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture specializing in ten disciplines including Agric. Economics, Agric. Extension & Communication, Agronomy, Entomology, Food Technology, Forestry and Range Management, Horticulture, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Plant Pathology & Soil Science and Soil Water Conservation and two years duration leading to M.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture in Agric. Extension & Communication, Agronomy, Entomology, Food Technology, Horticulture, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Plant Pathology & Soil Science and Soil Water Conservation. Ph.D. programme in the disciplines of Agronomy, Entomology, Food Technology, Horticulture, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Plant Pathology & Soil Science and Soil Water Conservation is also being offered.
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