National Agricultural Higher Education Project

IDP-Academic Model:

IDP-SKUAST Slogan:

"Next Gen Student Transcript":

Key Attributes of SKUAST Graduate:

CurriculumDesign

Building Student Competency

METHODOLOGY:

The Approach to Formulate Objectives

SKUAST-K has aligned itself as a reform ready institution. It, therefore, took the call of ICAR under NAHEP as the timely one to orient its educational program for bringing excellence in agricultural education and training. To thrash out the strategy of the university to align with the aims and objectives of the IDP under NAHEP, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor framed a task force committee for an appraisal of the agricultural educational system prevailing in the university. Keeping in view the national goals and priorities of building a trained, skilled, and motivated human capital to drive the agri-economy as entrepreneurs, agri-business leaders and work force for the private sector, the committee chalked out a program for SWOT analysis of its education system in vogue. The graphical view of the approach adopted for developing the IDP for SKUAST-K is given below:

Rational Of IDP-SKUAST-K

Mission ...

IDP Centers:

Faculty Of Agriculture

Vision:
"To be a Leading Faculity In Temperate Agriculture Education & Research."
Mission:
" Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension Education"
Mandate:
1." Imparting quality education in fields of Agriculture for creating competent human resource"
2." Conduct need based research in identified areas"
" Faculty of Agriculture was established in the year 1960 as the erstwhile Govt. Agriculture college. With the establishment of SKUAST in 1982, the college became a constituent unit of university as Faculty of Agriculture offering UG courses in Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and Sericulture. With the reorganisation of units, Forestry and Horticulture were relocated to Benihama and Shalimar respectively. Till date, Faculty has produced around 6000 graduates and postgraduates who are serving at state, national and international levels in different capacities in developmental departments, academic and research institutions. The faculty is spread over a sprawling campus at Wadura, Sopore over an area of 92 hecatres with huge physical infrastructure comprising of an administrative block, three academic blocks having nine state of art smart class rooms, well equipped UG and PG labs, a rich library and information centre with more than 25000 books, CD ROM, knowledge management centre having 25 systems and an ambient study area. Faculty offers UG programme in Agriculture and PG and PhD programmes in Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Genetics & Plant Breeding, Entomology, Extension, Economics, Soil Sciences and Microbiology. The faculty has nine major divisions with 78 faculty members comprising four Professors, nine Associate Professors and 55 Assistant Professors. Currently there are more than 750 UG and PG students on roll with substantial socio-cultural diversity with students across J&K, other states as well as from other countries. There are adequate logistic and hospitality facilities on campus including Health Centre with 24 x 7 medical service support, Bank with ATM, student Facilitation Centre, Gymnasium, Auditorium as well as facilities for indoor and outdoor games. Faculty houses adequate residential facilities with seven hostels (3 boys and four girls) as well as residential quarters for faculty and a huge guest house. Faculty has also a state of art bio-fertiliser research laboratory with 1000 litre capacity fermenter, a multi-crop seed processing plant, dairy unit as well as huge instructional farms and orchards including a model IFS system.

IDP-Activities Of FoA

About Faculty Of Horticulture

Background:
Horticulture is the most vibrant sector of the economy of Jammu and Kashmir State which constitutes about 45% of the share which agriculture sector contributes to GSDP, it entails a turnover of about four thousand crores annually comprising of a major production and export sector.Though the Faculty for Horticulture was created during the year 2007,yet it started functioning during April, 2014. The undergraduate programme in Horticulture (B. Sc., Hort.) was started during 2007 under the Faculty of Agriculture, Wadura and accredited by the Accreditation Board of ICAR during 2009. According to the decision taken by the University Council at its 20th, 21st and 22nd Meeting and adoption of the provisions of ICAR Model Act, the Faculty of Horticulture was established at Shalimar campus and the postgraduate programmes in Horticulture and allied disciplines which were earlier accredited under the Faculty of Postgraduate studies were brought under the administrative, academic and technical control of the Dean Faculty of Horticulture."
Vission:
To be the leader in horticulture education, training and research with special reference to Hill and Mountain Ecosystem.
Mission:
Imparting quality education in Horticulture and its allied branches to produce competent and skilled human resource.
To accomplish/conduct local need based research to generate useful technologies and disseminate these technologies for promotion of horticulture in the state.
To develop entrepreneurship programmes and modules for commercial Horticulture.
To become a repository and to diversify Horticultural production in tune with the existing and future driving forces for change.
To emerge as the Centre of Excellence of Learning for Hill and Mountain Horticulture and its allied branches.

IDP-Activities Of FoH

Faculty Of VS&AH

IDP-Activities Of FoVS&AH

Faculty Of Fisheries

VISION:
The vision of FoFy is to be the Centre of Excellence for cultivating professionalism in fisheries and an important base for scientific innovation, in fisheries sector in general and hill/coldwater fisheries in particular.
MISSION:
Development of trained human resource in fisheries for the whole country in general and Jammu & Kashmir state in particular with special reference to Coldwater/Hill fisheries.
Organizing Research & Development (R&D) especially in Coldwater/Mountain Fisheries.
Tapping of Fisheries Potential of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Development of technologies for mass seed production of Schizothoracids (snow trouts) for natural stock enhancement and their subsequent culture.
Economically viable Feed formulation for Trouts and carps in Kashmir.
Conservation and management of aquatic resources for food/sport/tourism vis-à-vis Fisheries.
Impact Assessment of exotics on the local fish fauna. GOALS:
apping of Fisheries Potential of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Development of trained human resource in Coldwater/Hill fisheries for the whole country in general and Jammu & Kashmir state in particular. Organizing Research & Development (R&D) in Coldwater/Mountain Fisheries. Development of technologies for mass seed production of Schizothoracids (snow trouts) for natural stock enhancement and their subsequent culture. Feed formulation for Trouts and Schizothoracids (snow trouts). Conservation and management of aquatic resources for food/sport/tourism vis-à-vis Fisheries. Impact Assessment of exotics on the local fish fauna.
he adequate Research & Development coupled with Education support in Hill/coldwater fisheries sector are very important and critical to the region. Even the Human resource Development for this sector is very inadequate. No Institution in the country is conducting Resident Instruction programmes in Fishery Science specific to temperate Coldwaters. Most of the programmes are tailor-made for warm water, coastal and marine sectors. Therefore, in order to remove this imbalance and address the issues of coldwater/temperate sector in greater detail to generate suitable technologies for raising per unit productivity, the Faculty of Fisheries in SKUAST (K) was established in August 2005. Mandate of the Faculty shall be to conduct research and disseminate the findings and other technical information through extension education programmes, besides producing skilled and trained manpower for the better administration and management of fisheries sector. Degree Programme Offered: The Faculty is offering Bachelors (B.F.Sc.), Masters (M.F.Sc. in seven disciplines) and Doctoral (Ph.D. in two disciplines) at its Rangil, Campus. Courses related to Cold water/Hill Fisheries have been incorporated in the curriculum as per ICAR recommendations. The Faculty is offering two seats each in B.F.Sc & M.F.Sc degree programmes for other hill states of the country like Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim & Uttarakhand having Coldwater / Hill fisheries resources. Students from these states are already taking the benefit of this provision. Students of Fisheries have excelled at National level in various competitive examinations conducted for research fellowships and ARS. Under ICAR JRF, students have shown 100% results (with National Ranking as high as 3) all along during the past which has resulted SKUAST-Kashmir to rank at No.3 among the Best SAUs in India.

IDP-Activities Of FoF

Faculty Of Forestry

VISSION:
To achieve excellence in temperate forestry education, research and extension for sustainable forest development and livelihood security of farming community
MISSION:
The faculty would continue to provide thrust on entrepreneurship at undergraduate level, professionalism combined with entrepreneurship at graduate level; and specialized grooming at the post graduate level in the emerging areas of forestry. A strong human resource backup would be provided to the State Forest Department for meeting the challenges of scarcity of trained manpower able to deliver with authenticity and integrity. Research would be reoriented based on multidisciplinary approach rather than a rigid one focused on enhanced. The faculty would strive to achieve reliable, cost effective and time bound inventorization of forest resources to study different relationships between different variables using the fast emerging remote sensing and GIS technology. The Faculty of Forestry would devise a stage wise framework for exploring the possibility of Clonal forestry with conifers and promising broad leaved species for production of quality planting material (QPM) on a sustainable basis.
GOALS:
Forestry sciences like other sciences is fast emerging in the form of its different specialized fields including Silviculture and Agroforestry, Natural Resource Management, Forest Biology and Tree Improvement, Non Wood Forest Products, Forestry extension etc. A strong human resource generation would be targeted to meet the requirement of professionals by Forest Department for meeting the challenges of scarcity of trained manpower who can deliver with authenticity and integrity. The faculty of Forestry would continue to offer research based support aimed to push production and industrial forestry to meet the requirements of exponentially growing population for food, fodder, fuel wood, fibre and small timber. Region specific agroforestry systems would be worked on a viable option to meet these demands on a short and long term basis with respect to Plywood industries, Cricket bat industry, Pulp and paper industry, match industry, Food industry (Honey and wild fruits) and other cottage industries like wicker work etc. The faculty of forestry would take up inventorization and productivity assessment of grasslands of the region which offer huge potential for sustainable livestock production under natural grasslands. The grassland production still one of the underutilized and least studied resources of J&K especially Kashmir valley is slated to be one of the promising forest production venture in the future. Furthermore, the grazing pressure on these natural grasslands both in temperate and cold arid region of Ladakh demands research based interventions on priority. The faculty of forestry having recognized the huge push for forest based medicinal and aromatic herbs in the international market identitfiesNon Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) both cultivated and wild as indispensable source of alternative medicine in the region. The faculty would strive research based on medicinal and aromatic plants under different agroforestry models resulting into production maximization, revenue optimization and sustainable employment generation through a strong research base in forestry that would go a long way in improving socio-economic set up of forest based rural community. Forest resources being one of the most dynamic natural features are under consistent anthropogenic pressure due to different direct and indirect drivers. The traditional inventory assessment techniques would be gradually replaced by more reliable, cost and time effective methods using remote sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) and the Faculty of Forestry having already taken the initiative consistently strives to enhance its potential to provide techniques and human resource in the arena. The faculty would offer research based support on long time amelioration of degraded forest areas which have lost their biodiversity and productive capacity due to illicit felling, landslide erosion, forest fire, stone quarrying etc. The faculty of forestry would explore Clonal forestry still at nascent stage in the region which offers huge potential to address low productivity of traditional forestry species. Identification of desired traits in several species like Populus deltoides needs attention for production of highly productive but floss free male clones to control Poplar floss menace and unnecessary sacrifice of trees due to legislative compulsions.

IDP-Activities of Forestry

College of Temperate Sericulture

College of Agriculture Engg. & Tech.

The Division of Agricultural Engineering was established in the year 1987 as one of the constituent division of the Faculty of Agriculture with the objective of teaching core courses at UG and PG level, conducting research in the field of Farm Power and Machinery, Soil and Water Engineering, Renewable Energy Sources, Post Harvest Engineering and to disseminate Agricultural Engineering technologies to farmer’s fields. It is located in main campus of the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir which is situated at Shalimar, Srinagar and is about 30 km from Srinagar Airport and 15 km from Tourist Reception Centre, Srinagar. The undergraduate programme of B. Tech. (Agricultural Engineering) was started in 2006 in the Division of Agricultural Engineering under Faculty of Agriculture with an intake of 15 students. Subsequently, Division started awarding Master of Technology (Agricultural Engineering) in two disciplines viz. Soil and Water Engineering and Farm Machinery and Power Engineering in 2012 and 2014, respectively. The annual intake capacity for undergraduate programme increased gradually from 15 to 40 students in 2012 including ICAR quota admission. After consolidation of Faculties of the University, the Division of Agricultural Engineering has been associated with Faculty of Horticulture, Shalimar. The divsion of agricultural Engineering was upgraded to the status of College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology with six divisions in its ambit.

IDP Activities of Agri-Eng. & Tech.