Faculty of Agriculture
The 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.
Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension Education
To be a Leading Faculty in Temperate Agriculture Education & Research
Imparting quality education in fields of Agriculture for creating competent human resource Conduct need based research in identified areas
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The students of the Faculty are participating in various extra- /Co-curricular activities within and outside the university with brilliant performance.The students are regularly participating in various NSS activities like plantation/ cleanliness drive and other environmental awareness programmes. Similar performance is shown by our students in debates etc.
The Faculty has a well-maintained Library and Information Center, constructed on modern lines to cater to the learning requirements of the students, scholars as well as faculty members. The library is being managed by highly qualified Library and Information Science professionals.The physical dimenions of the library are:
In order to ensure optimum utilization of library materials, the staff members extend some specialized library services to the users, viz;. Reference ServiceCurrent Awareness ServiceIndexing serviceReprographic serviceAssistance in Retrieval of informationDocument Delivery ServicesRegistration to e-resources
Educational Institution all across the world are implementing different Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of different academic, administrative, research and extension related activities. Nowadays the process of learning has included learning using different means of Information & Communication Technology has become a new norm which has resulted in rapid increase in the investments made by different educational institutions in ICT and related services. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a very helpful tool for providing good governance to the Faculty and its associated Divisions which brings change in the working of an Educational Institution.The ICT Lab was established as a constituent unit of Dean’s office of Faculty, SKUAST-K in order to establish a platform where the students in general and faculty members in particular will leverage from the investments made in establishment of the unit. The main focus of ICT lab at Faculty is to help students in understanding a technology in order to ignite them to apply the ICT as a facilitator in their corresponding domains.
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