Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana

Name of the University: Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana

Year of Establishment: 1962

Vision :
The PAU envisions accelerating growth and achieving adequate, nutritious, healthy, safe food and livelihood security through sustainable agriculture.

Mission:

• Excellence in teaching, research and extension
• Developing quality human resource.
• Undertaking basic, applied and adaptive research.
• Developing and promoting appropriate technologies for supporting agro-based industries for enhancing farm income and generating self employment opportunities for the youth.
• Developing effective mechanism to transfer knowledge, skills and technology to farmers and agricultural organizations through extension services.
• Improving socio-economic conditions of the farming community technologies. through cost-effective.
• Seeking appropriate solutions to emerging problems and challenges.

Jurisdiction / Area of Operation: The State of Punjab

Educational Programmes offered (PG / UG / Ph. D/Diploma): The Punjab Agricultural University offers 84 academic programmes, out of which, 9 are undergraduate programmes, 44 Masters’ programmes, 29 Ph. D programmes and 2 Diploma Course.

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE:

Undergraduate Programmes

• B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture 4-year
• B.Tech. (Biotechnology) 4-year ⃰
• B.Tech. (Food Technology) 4-year ⃰
• B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture 2+4 year at Institute of Agriculture, Bathinda and Gurdaspur

Masters’ Programmes

• Agricultural Meteorology
• Agronomy
• Biotechnology
• Entomology
• Extension Education
• Food Technology
• Plant Breeding and Genetics
• Plant Pathology
• Soil Science

Ph.D Programmes

• Agricultural Meteorology
• Agronomy
• Biotechnology
• Entomology
• Extension Education
• Food Technology
• Plant Breeding and Genetics
• Plant Pathology
• Soil Science

Diploma Course

• Diploma in Agriculture 2-year at
• PAU, Ludhiana
• Regional Research Station, Faridkot
• Diploma Course in Hybrid Seed Production Technology 1-yearHybrid Seed Production Technology

PAU COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE BALLOWAL SAUNKRI

• B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture 4-year

COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE & FORESTRY

Undergraduate Programmes:

• • B.Sc. (Hons) Horticulture 4-year

Masters’ Programmes

• Horticulture (Fruit Science)
• Horticulture (Vegetable Science)
• Horticulture (Floriculture & Landscaping)
• Forestry

Ph.D Programmes

• Horticulture (Fruit Science)
• Horticulture (Vegetable Science)
• Horticulture (Floriculture & Landscaping)

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Undergraduate Programmes:

• B.Tech (Agril. Engg.) 4-year

Masters’ Programmes (M.T ech)

• Civil Engineering (Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering/ Structural Engineering)
• Computer Science and Engineering
• Farm Machinery and Power Engineering
• Computer Applications 3-year ⃰ and 2-year ⃰ lateral entry
• Processing and Food Engineering
• Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System ⃰ ⃰
• Soil and Water Engineering

Ph.D Programmes

• Energy Sciences and Technology
• Farm Machinery and Power Engineering
• Processing and Food Engineering
• Soil and Water Engineering

COLLEGE OF BASIC SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Masters’ Programmes

• B.Sc. (Hons) Agribusiness Management 4-year ⃰

5-year Integrated M.Sc (Hons.) ⃰

• Biochemistry
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Microbiology
• Zoology
• Physics

Masters’ Programmes

• Agricultural Economics
• Business Administration (Agribusiness)
• Business Administration
• Biochemistry
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Journalism & Mass Communication
• Microbiology
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Sociology
• Statistics
• Zoology

5-year Integrated M.Sc. (Hons)* in

• Biochemistry
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Microbiology
• Physics
• Zoology

Ph.D Programmes

• Agricultural Economics
• Biochemistry
• Botany
• Business Administration
• Chemistry
• Microbiology
• Sociology
• Zoology

COLLEGE OF COMMUNITY SCIENCE

Undergraduate Programmes

• B.Sc. (Hons) Community Science 4-year
• B.Sc. (Hons) Nutrition & Dietetics 4-year*

Masters’ Programmes

• Apparel and Textile Science
• Family Resource Management
• Food and Nutrition
• Extension Education and Communication Management
• Human Development and Family Studies

Ph.D Programmes

• Apparel and Textile Science
• Family Resource Management
• Food and Nutrition
• Extension Education and Communication Management
• Human Development and Family Studies

( ⃰ Self Supporting Programmes, ⃰ ⃰ In collaboration with Punjab Remote Sensing Centre.)

Major Area of Research:

• Enhancing crop productivity and quality through:
• Accelerating breeding using Doubled Haploid Technology in wheat, maize, rice and vegetable crops.
• Application of biotechnology and marker assisted selection in field and perennial crops for precision breeding.
• Resistance/tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
• Climate resilient varieties tolerant to climate aberrations.
• Increasing input use efficiency, conservation of soil and water resources, and use of biofertilizers.
• Cropping systems for crop diversification.
• Integrated management of pests, diseases, weeds and promoting use of bioagents.
• Developing farm machinery for precision and cost-effective agriculture such as sugarcane harvester, cotton picker, pea harvester, etc.
• Agro/food processing, particularly, of vegetables and fruits.
• Generation of bio-energy from crop residues.
• Use of solar energy in agriculture.
• Participatory research involving farmers, functionaries and end-users.
• Producing high quality seed and plant saplings of fruits and forest trees.

Highlights of Extension Education Activities-(Including Number of KVKs, Training Programmes/Certificate Courses etc.)

• The University undertakes the transfer of improved agricultural technologies among the farmers and extension functionaries through 15 Farm Advisory Service Centres (FASC) and 18 Krishi Vigyan Kendras(KVKs) located at different district headquarters in Punjab and various departments; Agricultural Technology Information Centre (ATIC); and Advanced Centre of Training at Kairon Kisan Ghar (KKG) on the main campus. These Centres transfer the technologies through various extension modes like Kisan Melas, field days, workshops, adaptive research trials, on farm trials, demonstrations, trainings (short, vocational and in-service), skill development courses, exhibitions, camps, campaigns, technical guidance, TV/radio talks, kisan club/committees meetings, agricultural publications and sale of farm literature.
• More than 1,600 training programmes are organized for the farmers, farm women, rural youth and extension functionaries to enhance their knowledge for increasing agricultural productivity and profitability.

Strengths of the University (including five important achievements)

The Punjab Agricultural University is a pioneer State Agricultural University in India for research, education and extension in agriculture. It has played a pivotal role in ushering Green Revolution, making the country self-sufficient in food grain production and transforming the State of Punjab to food grain bowl of the country.

The five significant achievements of the University include:

• The University has recommended more than 912 varieties/hybrids of different crops, out of which, 222 have been released at the national level. PAU produced the first hybrid grain pearl millet in the world. Presently, about 95% area under wheat and 60% area under rice in the state are under improved varieties recommended by PAU. The PAU varieties are popular in many other states of the country.
• The PAU is a leader in conservation agriculture as it recommended conservation tillage way back in late 80s. The direct-drilling of wheat in combine harvested rice residues by PAU Happy Seeder is a classic example of conservation agriculture in the country.
• The productivity of wheat increased from 1.2 t/ha in 1960-61 to 5.1/ha in 2019-2020 and of rice from 1.1t/ha to 4.0 t/ha in 2019-2020. The cropping intensity in the State increased from 126% during 1960-61 to nearly 206%. Concerted efforts towards strengthening technology base in diversification crops has led to gradual increase in area under fruit crops (83.6 thousand ha in 2017-18, 86.8 in 2018-19, 90.4 in 2019-20 to 93.6 thousand ha in 2020-21). Area under vegetable crops has also been going up (258.5 thousand ha in 2017-18, 273.6 in 2018-19, 289.4 in 2019-20 to 305.4 thousand ha in 2020-21).
• The University is pioneer in apiculture, leading the state to produce 37% honey of the country. It is pioneer in successful introduction, establishment and development of Italian honey bee (Apis mellifera) in India during 1962-1964.
• The PAU is a leader in farm mechanization and has facilitated the State as a 'Farm Machinery Hub' for the other states as well.
• The students at PAU bagged prestigious fellowship and awards like the Prime Minister’s Fellowship, USAID Fellowship, Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Fellowships. During the year 2022, graduate students won nine Prime Minister Fellowships out of 24 awarded at the national level. The students have brought laurels to the university by bagging Women Scientist Scheme (WOS-A) by DST, SERB-OVDF Fellowship, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Fellowship and Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam Young Research Fellowship. A number of students bagged, ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Indian Council of Social Sciences Research, Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, National Fellowship for OBC from UGC, National Talent Scholarship by ICAR, ICAR/UGC Junior Research Fellowship, ICAR/UGC Senior Research Fellowship, India Afghanistan Fellowship by ICAR, Graduate Aptitude Test- Biotechnology by DBT Post Matric Scholarship and University Merit Scholarship.

Niche Areas of Excellence(Area in which University is strong)

• Crop improvement and genetic resource management
• Hybrid breeding of field and vegetable crops
• Conservation agriculture
• Protected cultivation and structure designing
• Agricultural mechanization
• Agricultural biotechnology
• Food processing and value addition
• Technology transfer and field outreach
• Human resource development
• State of the art laboratories (pesticide residue analysis, plant tissue culture and transformation, molecular biology, genomics, electron microscopy, nanotechnology, food industry centre etc.)
• Regional Research Stations and seed farms.

Status of Autonomy: The Punjab Agricultural University established by Section 3 of Punjab Agricultural University Act 1961 passed by Punjab Legislature. The University is self autonomous body as per Act.

Funding Support Received (From State and other agencies): Annual budget (2021-22) is Rs 59418.51 lakh of which Rs 43638.37 lakh (80.11%) is contributed by State Government, Rs 10357.33 lakh (13.46%) by ICAR, Rs 1364.51 lakh (1.77%) by Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) and Rs 4058.30 lakh (4.66%) by other sources.

Faculty Position:

• Sanctioned: 1364
• In position: 844
• Vacant: 520

Student intake:

• UG: 700
• PG: 687
• Ph.D: 219

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