About the college Campus life Mission Faculty Admission process Examination and evaluation Extra Curricular Activities About the Place Contact details

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1 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, AMBAJOGAI, DIST:BEED About the college Campus life Mission Faculty Admission process Examination and evaluation Extra Curricular Activities About the Place Contact details About the college : The College of Agriculture, Ambajogai, is a constituent college of Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agriculture University, Parbhani which is a state run Agriculture University for Marathwada region of Maharashtra state, India. The college of Agriculture, Ambajogai was established in the year 2000 vide GR. No. MKV/1299/77/20-A dated to cater the need of agriculture education of this region and to admit the student for their agriculture graduation programme.

2 Initially it had the intake capacity of 32 students which simultaneously increased to 60 student per academic year. 30 percent seats are reserved for girls students. This College is well equipped with practical laboratories, state of the art classrooms and on farm facilities. The on farm facilities includes the experimental plots of crop improvement and production, crop protection, crop cafeteria, demonstration plots, horticultural fruit crop orchards, polyhouse, shed net house etc. The college has well furnished reading room with library, computer cell, museum, cultural center, Placement cell, college canteen. The college has wi-fi facilities available. The college follows the course curriculum described by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and is the same all over the country. The college has residential facilities for the students like boys hostel and girls hostel. The college has well trained and most qualified faculty in their subject. The students are encouraged to carry out experiments on research aspects of their choices to make them competent for PG research. Campus Life: TOP The campus is safe for its students, surrounded by a boundary wall. The hostels are guarded by watchmans. Girls hostel gates are closed from 7pm to 6 am to safeguard the girls students. Hostel mess is available in boys and girls hostel with aqua guard water facilities. The hostel rooms are self contained having utility facilities. Students make use of college canteen throughout the day and in the evening having good seating arrangement. There are sitting benches in the campus used for relaxing by students.

3 Mission: The goals and objectives of the agriculture College are as under Objectives : i) To generate technical manpower for agriculture. ii) To generate technologies to increase crop production and productivity. iii) To disseminate the technological knowledge in agriculture to rural farming communities. iv) To help the peasant for starting agro based industries and marketing farm produce. i) To provide agriculture related technical education to its graduating students. ii) To make its graduating students competent enough to start their own agro industries and farm productions. iii) To provide extension service to the needy rural people. Admission Process: TOP Admission to the undergraduate program of the college is through Maharashtra Council of Agricultural Education and Research, Pune. Upto 2017 it was based on percentage of marks obtained in higher secondary board certificate. From 2018, the admission is based on CET score of Maharashtra CET. Examination and evaluation: The graduation programme is of 8 semesters distributed over 4 years i.e 2 semester per year. The semester has one mid term examination and final examination in each subject. The programme has 165 credit course load distributed over the 4 year programme. The evaluation is done at university level. Each student is allocated to a advisor who advice student throughout their degree program for its smooth completion.

4 Extra- Curriculum Activities: The college has separate play ground for girls and separate play ground for boys which include volley ball, kho-kho, kabaddi ground and a common running track.table tennis, chess and carom, facilities are available as indoor game. Yoga park is available for yogasana. About the Place: Ambajogai has a good climate through out the year. The morning and evenings are cool and breezy at the campus. The campus is situated on Ambajogai- Beed road on the outskirt of the city. The city of Ambajogai is well connected to all the important cities of the state by state road transport bus service and aircondition travels. The nearest railway station is either parli vaijanath (28km) and latur (35km). The nearest airport is Aurangabad (180km). The nearest international airport is Hyderabad (280km). Ambajogai is known as place of education institution in marathwada region from a century. The city of Ambajogai has reasonably all facilities of human sustenance. Faculty at college: Associate Dean & Principal Dr. Suresh. G. Borkar Ph. D, Post doctorate (France), D.Sc (USA)

5 TOP Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding Dr.B.G.Kambale Prof.S.T.Rathod Department of Agronomy Dr.P.N.Karanjikar Dr.Y.M. Waghamare Department of Soil Science Dr.V.G. Takankar Prof. S.S. Galande

6 Department of Entomology Dr. P K Nalwandikar Department of Plant pathology Dr. S P Shirsikar Department of Extension Education Dr.V.V. Tayade Department of horticulture Dr.Shakti Arbat Department of Dairy Science Prof. N. S. Kamble Hostel Proctor Girls hostel: Dr. Shakti Arbat Boys hostel: Prof. S S Galande TOP

7 Office Administration: Assistant Section Officer Shri.S.B. Sali Contact details Tel ; Fax : agril.ambj@ gmail.com TOP

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