Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology
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Type | Public |
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Established | 1975 |
Chancellor | Ram Naik |
Vice-Chancellor | Dr. Pradeep Sharma |
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Campus | Urban |
Affiliations | UGC |
Website | www.csauk.ac.in |
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Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology (CSAUA&T; Hindi: चंद्र शेखर आज़ाद कृषि एवं प्रौद्योगिक विश्वविद्यालय) is an agricultural university at Kanpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is named after the famous Indian revolutionary Chandrashekhar Azad. There are five faculties in the university: Faculties of Agriculture and Home Science at Kanpur, and the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology. Fisheries.Dairy Technology at Etawah. The university caters to the needs of the farming community of 29 districts of Uttar Pradesh.
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History
A small school was started in 1893 at Kanpur to provide training to revenue officers. It gradually grew to the status of a Government Agricultural College (1906), the U.P. Institute of Agricultural Sciences (1969) and a full-fledged university in 1975. U.P. College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Mathura was merged with the university at that time.
Faculties
- Faculty of Agriculture at kanpur
- Faculty of Home Science at Kanpur
- Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology at Etawah
- Faculty of Fisheries Science at Etawah
- Faculty of Dairy Technology at Etawah
Admission policy
Students are admitted to the under graduate programme through SEE-UPTECH (State Entrance Examination) conducted by UPTECH, Lucknow, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh. Seats are allotted according to the merit of the students in SEE-UPTECH and their choice at the time of counselling 2008-09 onward students are taken through UPCATET
Research
The extensive research effort in the university takes place under Director - Agricultural Research Station. It is divided into the following research sections:
- Economic Botanist (Rabi Cereals) established in 1904 as the first Economic Botanist of India (along with Lyallpur, now in Pakistan).
- Barley Section
- Economic Botanist (Legumes)
- Economic Botanist (Oilseed)
The university has developed and released more than 150 early maturing, high yielding and disease/insect resistant crop varieties/hybrids of cereals, pulses, oilseeds, vegetables, cotton, 29 of these in the last three years. It has also contributed to the evolution of agro-techniques suited to various situations.
Extension
The university provides training to farmers and officials in agricultural technologies. An Agricultural Technology Information Centre at the main gate of the university provides information to the farmers in the region.
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