Indira Gandhi
Agricultural University, Raipur came into existence on 20 January 1987,
after bifurcating from Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University, Jabalpur,
for the tribals, scheduled caste and socio-economically backward
communities of Chattisgarh.
The university has 4
Faculties, viz. Agriculture, Dairy technology, Veterinary and animal
husbandry, and Agricultural engineering. The Agricultural College offers
undergraduste, post-graduate and Ph. D. programmes in different subjects
whereas the Veterinary and AH Faculty offers undergraduate and
post-graduate programmes. The dairy Technology offers at present,
undergraduate programme leading to B. Tech. (Dairy Technology) degree,
whereas the Agricultural Engineering faculty offers P.G. programme leading
to M. Tech degree in 4 disciples of Agricultural Engineering.
The Agriculture Faculty
has 3 more constant Colleges at Bilaspur, Ambikapur and Jagdalpur, and two
affiliated Agricultural Colleges at Dhamtari and Durg and one
Horticultural College at Raipur.
The IGAU is well
recognized for its rice research, especially rainfed rice research. It has
a very strong collaboration with International Rice Research Institute
Philippines in rice research, and Rockefeller Foundation for financial
support.
It also has collaboration
with CGMB, IPGRI etc. The university has a very rich germplasm of rice
(22,500 accessions) next to IRRI in the world.
The university has
projects like Institution-Village Linkage Programme front-line
demonstrations and training programmes through the network of 4 KVKs. The
extension directorate offers training programme in vocational courses like
bee-keeping, mushroom cultivation, crop production, biotechnology etc. for
the educated un-employed rural youth. The Agro-meteorological Advisory
Service provides medium-range (5-day) forecast as weather conditions.
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