Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University
	File:Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University logo.gif
Motto in English	Lead me from darkness to light
Type	Public
Established	1903
Chancellor	Prafulla Kumar Mishra
Vice-Chancellor	Ramesh Chandra Srivastava
Location	Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, India
Campus	Rural
Website	www.rpcau.ac.in

Academic Building, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, formerly Rajendra Agricultural University, is an agriculture university and is recognised as Institute of National Importance.It is located in Pusa, Samastipur district, Bihar

History[edit]

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University (Earlier, Rajendra Agricultural University) was originally established as India's first-ever Imperial Agriculture Research Institute.

The foundation stone of the Agricultural Research Institute and college was laid by Lord Curzon on 1 April 1905 with the financial assistance of Henry Phipps, Jr., an American philanthropist. Phipps was a family friend of Lady Curzon, the daughter of an American millionaire, and the wife of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India. In his speech, the viceroy had expressed his vision that the seed he was planting would soon blossom out, making Pusa the nucleus of agricultural activities, research and education which would not only benefit Bihar and Bengal but the whole of the country and would attract the best of talents from India and abroad. In separate meeting with the Bihar Planters Association, he fervently hoped that the institute would-be of immense service to them in their grave hour of crisis caused by the German Indigo scientist.

Lord Curzon left by the end of 1905 and Lord Minto was his successor. Till the last minute, he had seen through each and every detail of the Pusa project which virtually was his brainchild. Incidentally, one major issue on which he had not agreed was the architecture of the main building, its wings, vaults, and arches but finally, he gave his consent of course with a stint. Rightfully, Pusa received an imperial status in 1918, being renamed as the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute (IARI).

In 1934, after a major earthquake rocked Bihar and which severely damage the main buildings, the Imperial Institute was shifted to the new Pusa campus in New Delhi and that eventually became Indian Agricultural Research Institute. What remained was downgraded to an agricultural research station until 3 December 1970, when the government of Bihar established Rajendra Agricultural University.

On 11 May 2016 Parliament of India passed the Central University Bill. So RAU, Pusa has been upgraded to Central University and named as Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University.^[3]^[4]

Academics[edit]

There are five faculties in the university in the disciplines of Agriculture, Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, Basic Sciences, Humanities & Home Science, besides the college of agriculture, fisheries and institute of dairy technology. The university offers six undergraduate degree programmes, thirty-three postgraduate programmes and eighteen PhD programmes. It is also the only university to provide an MBA in Agribusiness programme.^{[citation needed]}

Departments of University[edit]

Gerbera Cultivation in Polyhouse, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University

Agronomy
Horticulture
Entomology
Agricultural Economics
Nematology
Soil Science
Extension Education
Plant Breeding and Genetics
Forestry
Plant Pathology
Agril Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
Microbiology
Soil and Water Engineering
Farm Machinery & Power
Processing & Food Engineering

University Library, established in the year 1978 at Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi, was shifted to present building at Pusa in 1981.

Agricultural Research Institute, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University

Constituent Centres of University[edit]

Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi, Muzaffarpur
College of Agricultural Engineering, Pusa
College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, Pusa
College of Home Science, Pusa
College of Fisheries, Dholi, Muzaffarpur
Sugarcane Research Institute, Pusa. *College of Rural Management, Pusa. * College of Agri Business Management, Pusa.
Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay College of Horticulture and Forestry, Piprakothi

References[edit]

↑ "Chancellor appointment notification" (PDF). Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
↑ "Vice-Chancellor's Profile - Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University". Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
↑ https://www.rpcau.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DRPCAU_ACT.pdf
↑ PTI (13 July 2016). "Cabinet okays name change of Rajendra Central Agricultural University". The Economic Times. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

External links[edit]

www.rpcau.ac.in

Coordinates: 25°58′22″N 85°41′36″E / 25.972861°N 85.693359°E / 25.972861; 85.693359

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[1] "Chancellor appointment notification" (PDF). Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University. Retrieved 21 January 2018.

[2] "Vice-Chancellor's Profile - Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University". Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University. Retrieved 21 January 2018.

[3] ttps://www.rpcau.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DRPCAU_ACT.pdf

[4] PTI (13 July 2016). "Cabinet okays name change of Rajendra Central Agricultural University". The Economic Times. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

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