Yes dear,

B.Sc. Agricultureis a4-yearundergraduate degree awarded by Indian Universities for 10+2 students preferably with Science stream. Like, BE/B.Techor MBBS, B.Sc. in Agricultureis considered as a professionaldegree by Government of India. The course is not so popular among students but the demand for trained professionals in agriculture is very high.



Admission to the course is mostly entrance exam based. KEAM, EAMCET are a few entrance exams conducted for admission to the course. There are 42 State Agricultural Universities (SAUs), 1 Central Agricultural University (CAU), 5 Deemed Universities (DUs) and 4 general Central Universities with Agriculture faculty in India. These institutions provide admission at UG level in 11 disciplines and about 15,000 students get enrolled every year. There are large numbers of private colleges and general universities too which admit a large number of students in B.Sc. Agriculture course few of which are:



Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore



Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana



Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar



Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar



University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore



B.Sc. Agriculture involves the study of agriculture sciences and use of modern scientific equipment and techniques in agriculture, land surveying, soil science, water resource management, animal, and poultry management, basics of biotechnology etc. The objective of the course is to use these concepts to train students to improve agricultural productivity.B.Sc. Agriculture Syllabusincludes subjects such as Agronomy, Plant Biochemistry, Water Managment Engineering, Study of Pests and Crops, amongst many others. The syllabus is designed to provide an overall knowledge of agriculture and all its related disciplines.