Faculty of Horticulture
Horticulture is the most vibrant sector of the economy of Jammu and Kashmir State which constitutes about 45% of the share which agriculture sector contributes to GSDP, it entails a turnover of about four thousand crores annually comprising of a major production and export sector.Though the Faculty for Horticulture was created during the year 2007,yet it started functioning during April, 2014. The undergraduate programme in Horticulture (B. Sc., Hort.) was started during 2007 under the Faculty of Agriculture, Wadura and accredited by the Accreditation Board of ICAR during 2009. According to the decision taken by the University Council at its 20th, 21st and 22nd Meeting and adoption of the provisions of ICAR Model Act, the Faculty of Horticulture was established at Shalimar campus and the postgraduate programmes in Horticulture and allied disciplines which were earlier accredited under the Faculty of Postgraduate studies were brought under the administrative, academic and technical control of the Dean Faculty of Horticulture.
1.Imparting quality education in Horticulture and its allied branches to produce competent and skilled human resource.2.To accomplish/conduct local need based research to generate useful technologies and disseminate these technologies for promotion of horticulture in the state.3.To develop entrepreneurship programmes and modules for commercial Horticulture.4.To become a repository and to diversify Horticultural production in tune with the existing and future driving forces for change.5.To emerge as the Centre of Excellence of Learning for Hill and Mountain Horticulture and its allied branches.
To be the leader in horticulture education, training and research with special reference to Hill and Mountain Ecosystem.
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The students of the Faculty are participating in various extra- /Co-curricular activities within and outside the university with brilliant performance.The students are regularly participating in various NSS activities like plantation/ cleanliness drive and other environmental awareness programmes. Similar performance is shown by our students in debates etc.
Faculty library make progress in its program to face challenges of information explosion by adopting information technology. Faculty library is providing quality services to the students, teachers & research scholars supporting teaching research & extension programs of the faculty.
Educational Institution all across the world are implementing different Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of different academic, administrative, research and extension related activities. Nowadays the process of learning has included learning using different means of Information & Communication Technology has become a new norm which has resulted in rapid increase in the investments made by different educational institutions in ICT and related services. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a very helpful tool for providing good governance to the Faculty and its associated Divisions which brings change in the working of an Educational Institution.The ICT Lab was established as a constituent unit of Dean’s office of Faculty, SKUAST-K in order to establish a platform where the students in general and faculty members in particular will leverage from the investments made in establishment of the unit. The main focus of ICT lab at Faculty is to help students in understanding a technology in order to ignite them to apply the ICT as a facilitator in their corresponding domains.
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