College of Agriculture, Imphal

The College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal (CAU) is one of the recognised institution started in the year 1993. This constituent college is established and working for education and research at field of agriculture located at Lamphelpat, Imphal West. Located on a huge plot of 44 acres, the CAU Imphal hosts numerous courses in Agricultural Sciences.

The college today has a total student population of three hundred and twenty six students and a teaching staff of forty-three members. The College of Agriculture and CAU Imphal will see that the students get the best equipment for use by them to boost their learning endeavors.

Camp facilities for instruction and research also include well equipped laboratories fitted with modern equipment for teaching and learning purposes. College library is an important knowledge reserves, it has more than 21000 books and documented CDs. It currently employs more than 27 periodical subscriptions and has a link to over 4,000 e-journal titles and 200 e-books through the deacon and the Cera.

It also provides the services of plagiarism control and currently, the library is in the process of being brought into digitisation. To enhance students’ comfort and convenience, we have separate hostels for boys and girls with facilities like Wi-Fi, 24 hours power service, purified drinking water and CCTV cameras.

The institute has complete programmes in agriculture with different levels that any learners would want to study. The first and oldest programme offered at the undergraduate level is the B. Sc. Agriculture (Hons). The postgraduate courses are M.

Sc offerings in Agronomy, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension Entomology, Horticulture, Plant Pathology Genetics and Plant breeding, Soil Science, and Agricultural Chemistry. For those wishing to pursue a doctorate education, the college has the following Ph.

D programmes; Genetics and Plant Breeding, Soil Sciences and Agriculture Chemistry, Agricultural Economics, Plant Pathology, and Agricultural Extension. All the courses are offered fully funded as this ensures that the students get the best knowledge as well as the necessary practice in their chosen fields all across the world.

Basically, admission in the College of Agriculture, CAU Imphal focuses on the selection of highly qualified students in the field of agriculture. College of Agriculture might expect its students to achieve satisfactory performance in related subjects and may administer its entrance examinations or accept scores from entrance tests taken by the students for admission into agricultural colleges at the national level.

CAU Imphal is a university that opens its doors to students of all castes and creeds from any part of India. The students of the institute enroll both boys and girls and this has greatly helped in equipping them to embrace both sexes when participating in agricultural research and production.