Sindh Agriculture University, (
Sindhi: سنڌ زرعي يونيورسٽي ٽنڊو ڄام ) is situated in
Tando Jam
Tando Jam ( sd, ٽنڊوڄام) is a town and Municipal Committee of Hyderabad District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is located at 25°25'60N 68°31'60E and lies about 12 km away from Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capi ...
town of
Hyderabad, on
Hyderabad-
Mirpurkhas highway and is about from
Karachi airport linked with super highway to Hyderabad.
Recognized university
Sindh Agriculture University is ranked 3rd best university in Agriculture in Pakistan by the Higher Education Commission.
[University Overview of Sindh Agriculture University]
University Rankings (uniRank Australia) website, Retrieved 24 October 2022
The university is an academic complex of five faculties (Faculty of Crop Production, Faculty of Crop Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Social Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences). Two institutes (Information Technology Centre and Institute of Food Sciences and Technology ). Three affiliated colleges (Sub Campus Umarkot, Shaheed Z.A.Bhutto Agriculture College Dokri and The Khairpur College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology) and Directorate of Advanced Studies and Research. The five faculties are majoring in almost 41 departments. These include the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M), Bachelor of Engineering in Agriculture (B.E.Agriculture), Bachelor of Science (Agriculture Honours) . and Bachelor of Science Information Technology (BS-IT Honours). The university offers postgraduate programmes leading to the award of M.S/ME and MS-IT in Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Agricultural Engineering and Information Technology and in all the above-mentioned disciplines of Agriculture. M.Phil and Ph.D degree programmes are also offered in selected subject areas where trained staff and other facilities are available.
Geography
The total area covered by the university is including an area of more than 80 acres occupied by residential and non-residential buildings of the University, Agricultural Research Institute, Nuclear Institute of Agriculture, Rural Academy, Agricultural Engineering Workshop, Drainage Research Centre, and Central Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
Faculties
A modest number of short courses and training programmes are regularly offered to meet the continuing and in service education needs of Agriculture Officers, Field Assistants, Bank Officials, Agricultural Technicians, Progressive Farmers, Small Farmers, Tenants, Gardeners, Housewives and other clientele groups.
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Faculty of Crop Production
* Department of Soil Science.
* Department of Agronomy
Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...
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* Department of Horticulture.
* Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics.
* Department of Biotechnology.
* Department of Crop Physiology.
Faculty of Crop Protection
* Department of Entomology
Entomology () is the science, scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such ...
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* Department of Plant Pathology.
* Department of Plant Protection
Crop protection is the science and practice of managing plant diseases, weeds, and other pests (both vertebrate and invertebrate) that damage crops and forestry. Crops include field crops (maize, wheat, rice, etc.), vegetable crops ( potatoes, ca ...
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Faculty of Agriculture Social Sciences
* Department of Agriculture Economics.
* Department of Agriculture Extensions.
* Department of Rural Sociology.
* Department of Statistics
Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...
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* Department of English.
* Department of Islamic Studies.
* Department of Studies.
Faculty of Agriculture Engineering
* Department of Irrigation and Drainage.
* Department of Farm Power and Machinery.
* Department of Land and Water Management
* Department of Farm Structure.
* Department of Energy and Environment.
* Department of Basic Engineering.
Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences (AVHS)
* Department of Animal and Histology.
* Department of Animal Nutrition
Animal nutrition focuses on the dietary nutrients needs of animals, primarily those in agriculture and food production, but also in zoos, aquariums, and wildlife management.
Constituents of diet
Macronutrients (excluding fiber and water) provide ...
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* Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
* Department of Animal Products
An animal product is any material derived from the body of an animal. Examples are fat, flesh, blood, milk, eggs, and lesser known products, such as isinglass and rennet.
Animal by-products, as defined by the USDA, are products harvested or man ...
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* Department of Animal Reproduction
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in ...
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* Department of Veterinary Parasitology.
* Department of Veterinary Pathology
Veterinary pathologists are veterinarians who specialize in the diagnosis of diseases through the examination of animal tissue and body fluids. Like medical pathology, veterinary pathology is divided into two branches, anatomical pathology an ...
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* Department of Veterinary Pharmacology.
* Department of Veterinary Medicines.
* Department of Livestock.
* Department of Poultry and Husbandry
* Department of Surgery and Obstetrics.
Information Technology Centre
* Computerisation and Network (MS-IT)[
* Software Engineering and Information System(MS-IT)][
Institute of Food Sciences and Technology
]
References
External links
Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam
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Public universities and colleges in Sindh
Universities and colleges in Hyderabad District, Pakistan
Agricultural universities and colleges in Pakistan
Agriculture in Sindh