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 29-03-2000 to cater the need of agriculture education of

this region and to admit the student for their agriculture graduation programme.

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.

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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.

Mission:

The goals and objectives of the agriculture College are as under

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.

Objectives :

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.

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Admission Process:

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.

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 air-

condition 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)

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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

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

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Office Administration:

Assistant Section Officer

Shri .S.B. Sali

Contact details

Tel ;+91-2446-245141

Fax :+91-2446-245141

Email : agril.ambj@ gmail .com

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