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College of Horticulture
The College of Horticulture was established in the year 2010 as a constituent college of Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda. It is located in the main campus of the university in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh which is near Circuit House on Mahoba Bypass Road, about 7 km from Banda city. It is the premier college of the state providing high quality education, research and outreach activities in horticultural sciences.
At present the college has six departments as given below, which are fully developed and equipped with modern laboratories and infrastructural facilities.
Departments in the College:
- Department of Vegetable Science
- Department of Fruit Science
- Department of Post Harvest Technology
- Department of Floriculture & Landscape Architecture
- Department of Basic and Social Science
- Department of Plant Protection
Programmes offered:
The academic activities of the College are carried out strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Academic Regulations of the University approved by the Academic Council. The following are the programmes offered by the college at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degree programmes.
Under Graduate Degree Programme | |||
Sr. No. | Name of the degree programme | Year of Commencement | Intake |
1. | B.Sc. (Hons.) Horticulture | 2011 | 122* |
Post Graduate Degree Programme | |||
2. | M.Sc. (Horticulture) Vegetable Science | 2018 | 8 |
3. | M.Sc. (Horticulture) Fruit Science | 2018 | 8 |
4. | M.Sc. (Horticulture) Floriculture and Landscaping | 2018 | 8 |
5. | M.Sc. (Horticulture) Post Harvest Technology | 2018 | 8 |
6. | M.Sc. (Agriculture) Biochemistry | 2022 | 5 |
Doctoral Degree Programme | |||
7. | Ph.D. (Horticulture) Vegetable Science | 2021 | 4 |
8. | Ph.D. (Horticulture) Fruit Science | 2021 | 4 |
9. | Ph.D. (Horticulture) Floriculture & Landscape Architecture | 2021 | 2 |
10. | Ph.D. (Horticulture) Post-Harvest Technology | 2021 | 2 |
* Including 15 percent seats of ICAR | |||
At present, total strength of the students of all the batches in the College of Horticulture in the undergraduate degree programme is 389, while in PG and Ph.D. program the strength is 47 and 21 respectively. Till now, from the college, the students from ten batches of B.Sc. (Hons.) Horticulture, five batches of M.Sc. (Horticulture) and two batches of Ph.D. have obtained their degrees. The alumni from the College have cleared various competitive exams at the national level and brought laurels to the name of university.
Faculty Strength:
Faculties from all departments are fully involved in curriculum preparation, teaching and assessment of students, research guidance for postgraduate students and outreach activities. The College has employed highly qualified and experienced faculty to cater good education to the students and support the college’s research and extension activities. The College of Horticulture faculty aims to train students and impart knowledge to develop skilled human resources so that they can contribute in sustainable development of country.
Department | Professor | Associate Professor | Assistant Professor | Total |
Vegetable Science | 04 | – | 04 | 08 |
Fruit Science | 02 | 01 | 03 | 06 |
Floriculture & Landscape Architecture | 01 | – | 03 | 04 |
Post Harvest Technology | 01 | – | 04 | 05 |
Basic & Social Sciences | – | – | 05 | 05 |
Plant Protection | – | 01 | 01 | 02 |
Total | 08 | 02 | 20 | 30 |
Infrastructural Facilities:
The building of college is spread over an area of about 20000 m2 with smart class rooms and research laboratories for effective delivery of the curriculum. The college is well equipped with farm machinery, protected structures, hi-tech nursery, gene bank, crop cafeteria of fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants, medicinal and aromatic plants etc. The College of Horticulture has a well-developed Horticulture farm of around 45 ha area including instructional farm, research farm, gene bank, CEDA farm, farm under Centre for Protected Cultivation Technology, farm under Hi-tech nursery and seed production unit and laboratories to meet out the needs of students in UG, PG and doctoral degree programs with quality teaching, research and practical learning.
Research and Developmental Projects:
The College has more than 25 projects on different aspects from funding agencies like ICAR, The Alliance of Bioversity International, RKVY, UPCAR, UPCST, National Bee Board, Spice Board, IRRI etc. and has developed infrastructure for the propagation of the horticultural plants like polyhouse, net house, screen house etc. The College has also developed one sponge gourd ‘Ken Swadisht’ (released by State and central committees), one purslan lines, one leafy mustard, one amaranth and one spine gourd line which are identified and submitted to testing in AICRP-VC, ICAR-IIVR, Varanasi for multi-location testing. In the Department of Post Harvest Technology, a functional “BUAT Fruit and Vegetable Processing Unit” having FSSAI Registration No: 22718829000094 has been established since 2018. The college has been accrediated under the National Agricultural Education Accreditation Board (NAEAB) of ICAR, New Delhi for a period of 5 years in 2024.
Vision:
To emerge as a global centre of excellence in teaching, research and extension in agriculture and allied sciences in the country to ensure sustained healthy food, nutrition and livelihood security.
Mission:
The university is committed to the cause of Indian agriculture through its quality teaching, demand-driven and location-specific research and extension programmes in the light of dynamism of socio-economic and agro ecological conditions, management perceptions, international trade scenarios and government policies.
Goal:
- Educate and train human resource at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in frontier areas of horticulture and allied sciences.
- Advanced research in elite areas of horticulture and allied sciences, dissemination of technology in coordination with state departments and institutions for sustainable growth of horticulture.
- Transform Bundelkhand into a model of horticultural development for dryland areas.
Thrust areas of research:
- To strengthen the research on various Horticultural crops most suitable under agro- climatic condition of Bundelkhand region.
- Development of climate resilient horticulture practices in the region.
- Development of Horticulture based farming systems.
- Development of technologies for income generation and livelihood security
Student’s Placement:
The College imparts job oriented professional education in the field of Horticulture. There is tremendous scope for intelligent and skilled graduates in India and abroad. In order to achieve this objective, the University has setup a full-fledged Counseling and Placement Cell in 2015. With the support of faculty members in organizing career guidance lectures and group discussions by the counseling and placement cell helped the students in getting significant success in getting jobs opportunities in public and private sector organizations/ companies/industries/PSUs, etc. of various departments through liaison and campus interviews.
Top placed alumni of the College:
Sl. No. | Name | Year of Degree | Annual Income | Job Title/ Present Occupation | Organization |
1. | Mahi Pal | 2016 | 1800000 | Senior Branch Manager, | Punjab National Bank |
| 2. | Omkar | 2015 | 1500000 | Branch Manager, | State Bank of India |
| 3. | Amit kumar | 2015 | 1500000 | Manager, | Union Bank Of India |
| 4. | Prakash Tiwari | 2015 | 1500000 | Manager, | Indian Bank |
| 5. | Santosh kumar | 2015 | 1400000 | Sales Officer, | GNFCL |
| 6. | Umesh Kumar | 2020 | 1400000 | Assistant Manager | IDBI Bank Ltd |
| 7. | Sharas Singh | 2015 | 1300000 | Manager, Indian Bank | Indian Bank |
| 8. | Aashu Jangid | 2022 | 1200000 | Agriculture Officer | Central Bank Of India |
| 9. | Ramji Pal | 2017 | 1200000 | Manager (Agriculture) | Punjab National Bank |
| 10. | Anoop Kumar Rawat | 2017 | 1100000 | Agri. Officer | Bank Of India |
| 11. | Abhishek Shukla | 2017 | 1000000 | Territory Sales Manager | Yara Fertilizer Pvt Ltd |
| 12. | Abhay Pratap Singh | 2018 | 1000000 | Assistant Manager | Union Bank Of India |
| 13. | Rudra Mishra | 2022 | 1000000 | Agriculture Officer | Punjab National Bank |
From Dean’s desk:
The College of Horticulture came into existence with the establishment of Banda University of Agriculture and Technology in 2010. The need for such a College arose from the basic consideration that the agro-climatic conditions of Bundelkhand differs greatly from those of the other areas of Uttar Pradesh and that the human resource trained in the college located in Bundelkhand will have better understanding and exposure to horticulture and will prove more useful for its development. Horticultural graduates and postgraduates are taught to develop and use knowledge of sustainable practices, new technologies, science and research to produce plants and crops and this knowledge is applied to post harvest practices. Bundelkhand is spread over southern Uttar Pradesh and northern Madhya Pradesh and covers a geographical area of around 70,000 sq km which includes seven districts of U.P. and six districts of M.P. The economy of Bundelkhand is largely dependent on agriculture and animal husbandry, owing to its predominant rural population. Under such conditions, horticultural crops have shown the inherent advantage of providing higher productivity per unit area of land as compared to other crops, resulting in higher income and employment generation in rural areas. Horticulture also ensures nutritional security and can also help farmers increase their income. With the world’s population continuing to increase and climate change impacting upon production, it is vital to continue to investigate new growing systems and to establish new crops which can be grown sustainably and transported to market with minimal losses which creates enormous demand of horticulturists and spread of the horticultural education.
The College of Horticulture is dedicated to offering high quality education and has gone to considerable lengths to achieve educational excellence. The college’s academic offerings give students an opportunity to work on the farm to explore the practical knowledge, bringing farmers experiences to the classroom and resolving challenges through student farmer collaboration and thus making them ready for the future challenges. The basic mandate of the college is to develop appropriate human resource for carrying out various horticultural activities in the state and to develop relevant technologies suitable for horticultural activities for the welfare of farming community of Bundelkhand region of the state and to disseminate horticultural technologies, sustainable development of horticulture among the various stakeholders. The college has been established with perspective to impart education in different branches of horticulture and to further the advancement of learning by undertaking research in horticulture and allied activities. I sincerely hope that the education imparted in this college will help in building secure, sustainable and quality future of the state, country and the world through its well trained graduates and postgraduates.
I extend a warm and affectionate welcome to all the students who aspire to be a part of the intellectual fraternity at College of Horticulture.
Prof. S. V. Dwivedi
Dean, COH
BUAT, Banda
College of Horticulture and ‘B.Sc. (Hons) Horticulture’ Degree Programme
At present there are 5 departments in the College of Horticulture:
- Vegetable Science
- Fruit Science
- Floriculture & Landscape Architecture
- Post Harvest Technology
- Plant Protection
- Basic & Social Sciences
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