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Bihar Agricultural University

Coordinates: 25°14′19″N 87°03′03″E / 25.2386°N 87.0509°E / 25.2386; 87.0509
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Bihar Agricultural University
Established17 August 1908 (116 years ago) (17 August 1908)
ChancellorGovernor of Bihar
Vice-ChancellorD. R. Singh
Location, ,
AffiliationsUGC, ICAR
Websitewww.bausabour.ac.in

Bihar Agricultural University is an autonomous public state university in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. It was established in 1908 as Bengal Provincial Agricultural College by Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser and was later renamed as Bihar Agricultural College following the partition of Bengal.[1] It was placed under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in 2010 and is the oldest agricultural institute of the state.

Bihar Agriculture college,Bhagalpur

Agriculture Knowledge Dissemination System

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Bihar Agriculture University is engaged in Research and Extension activities in the field of agriculture. In order to extend the research done in the University to farmers of Bihar, it signed an agreement with World Development Foundation, New Delhi to implement a project of "Agriculture Knowledge Dissemination System".[2] The project basically involved educating the farmers using ICT and video conferencing system for improved agriculture and livestock production.

Colleges

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The university has ten colleges:[3]

vks college of Agriculture Dumraon
Name District Established
Bihar agriculture college, Sabour Bhagalpur district 1908
Bhola Paswan Shastri Agricultural College Purnia District 2011
Mandan Bharti Agriculture College, Agwanpur Saharsa district 2007
Nalanda College of Horticulture, Noorsarai Nalanda District 2006
Dr Kalam Agricultural College Kishanganj District 2015
VKS College of Agriculture, Dumraon Buxar District 2011
Forestry college Munger District 2022
Agriculture Business Management college Patna District 2021
College of Agricultural Engineering, Ara Bhojpur District 2021
College of Agricultural Biotechnology, Sabour Bhagalpur District 2021

References

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  1. ^ "Bihar Agricultural University". www.bausabour.ac.in. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  2. ^ "BAU and WDF sign MOU for agriculture project in Bihar". Bihar Foundation. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Bihar Agriculture University". www.bausabour.ac.in. Retrieved 3 November 2017. Click on "Colleges".

Three colleges to be set up under Bihar Agriculture University

मुंगेर में बनेगा सूबे का पहला वानिकी महाविद्यालय

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25°14′19″N 87°03′03″E / 25.2386°N 87.0509°E / 25.2386; 87.0509