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The College of Agriculture, Raichur, is located at the Head Quarters of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur six kms. away from Raichur city. The College is one of the premier institutes in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region for imparting education and conduct of research and extension activities in agriculture.
Historical background
College of Agriculture was started in 1984 as the constituent College of UAS, Bangalore, and was accommodated temporarily in Regional Research Station and Agriculture Engineering Institute, Raichur. In 1988, the First batch of the B.Sc. (Agri) Degree programme was passed out from the College of Agriculture, Raichur, through the Trimester system. A semester system of education to both UG & PG programs was introduced in 1996. Further, Bifurcation and creation of University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, from UAS Dharwad in 2009 exclusively covering Hyderabad-Karnataka region spanning six districts viz. Bidar, Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Raichur, Bellary and Koppal was the stepping stone for the development of Kalyan Karnataka region.
About 27 hectares is covered under horticulture and botanical garden. Nearly, 16 hectares of land is reserved for instructional farm, wherein students’ activities such as crop production, micro plot experimental techniques and post graduate research work are undertaken.The field laboratory provides all the facilities required for the students and staff to undertake all field level practices. The instructional farm is well laid out with roads, irrigation facilities, drains, water ponds, water ponds, water pipelines, threshing yard, etc., to take up the field work efficiently.
The modern laboratories with specialized facilities for imparting teaching and research work viz., tissue culture laboratory, central instrumentation unit, ARIS centre and computer lab, a unit of plant health clinic are established. All these laboratories have state of art facilities with high-tech instruments like plant growth chamber, walk-in-germinator, atomic absorption spectrophotometer, liquid scintillation unit, UV spectrophotometer, distillation unit, flame photometer, binocular microscope, etc.
Dr. NARAYANA RAO K.
DEAN(AGRI)
College of Agriculture,
Raichur-584 102
Phone:08532-221411
E-mail:deanacr@uasraichur.edu.in