Faculty of Agriculture

About Us

Epilogue:
The College of Agriculture is the largest of the twelve constituent colleges of Guru Kashi University. The college was established in 2011. The College imparts quality education in field of Agriculture in B. Sc. Agriculture (Hons) four year and six year programmes through network of five departments (Departments of Agronomy and Meteorology, Entomology, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Plant Pathology, Soil Science and Horticulture). The college has rare distinction to achieve its accreditation from ICAR for its B. Sc. Agr (Hons) programme and is among the first 3 private colleges in India to get this recognition. During its short span of one decade, the college achieved its mission through its team of highly competent and well-qualified faculty members and state-of-the-art infrastructure. & undertake region centric research to evaluate cost effective, production & protection technology The College helps to produce job providing, rather than job seeking, graduates through experiential learning units. Many alumni of the college have able to get admission in high ranking national institutes and placement in government as well as private sector.
Brief History
Agriculture has been the mainstay of Indian economy since ages. The science and art of agriculture has many references in the Vedic Literature and the ancient history of the mankind. The agriculture sector in India provides employment to 58% of the population of the country and contributes about 17-18 % to the Gross Domestic Product. Trained human resource has been the key factor behind the Green Revolution that has led India to become self reliant in food and becoming a fast developing economy. Knowledge based, input-use efficient, eco-friendly and high tech precision agriculture has been the next stage for which efforts have been recognized by Guru Kashi University in planning, designing and executing the agricultural educational programmes. Considering the importance of Agricultural Education, Vice-Chancellor Dr. D. S. Hira, recommended the establishment of College of Agriculture at GKU. As a result of this recommendation, College of Agriculture was established in 2011 at GKU. The study programmes are being conducted as per recommendation of Fifth Dean Committee of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), New Delhi.

* The College has rare distinction to achieve its accreditation from ICAR and Punjab State Council for Agricultural Education. It is the only College in Punjab have Two prestigious accreditations.
* The College imparts quality education in the field of Agriculture through network of departments of Agronomy, Entomology, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Plant Pathology, Soil Science and Horticulture.
* During its short span of one decade, the college achieved its mission through its team of highly competent and well-qualified faculty members and state-of-the-art infrastructure & undertake region centric research to evaluate cost effective, production & protection technology.
* The college has been of offering B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons.) and M.Sc. program in Agronomy, Entomology, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Plant Pathology, Soil Science and Horticulture.

Achievements
1. The University has adopted five villages and regularly doing outreach activities such as tree plantation drives, awareness camps on straw management and environment pollution.

2. Based on the field evaluation superior genotypes of Tomato (Sel -7, Sel-14), Cherry-tomato (Sel-1), Chilli (CMV and TMV tolerant) and Brinjal (GKU Green Sel-1, GKU Black Sel -2, GKU Purple Sel-3) have been identified.

3. The researchers of College recently able to optimize the conditions for the tissue culture of Strawberry, the plants were giving better results in terms of growth and yield.

4. The University has set-up nurseries of high quality fruit trees and vegetables produced through tissue culture for distribution to students for experimentation and farmers for growing.