which would be better bsc in biotechnology honours or bsc in agriculture honours?

Hey,

B.Sc. (Agriculture) is definitely better than the latter in terms of more scope for jobs. If the intake strength in less than 50–100 over whole of India that will be ok, but you will find those many colleges with intake strength of around 100 students per year i.e. around 5000–10000 students. Imagine what will happen if production exceeds manifold as compared to job demand.

Agriculture Biotechnology specifically Plant Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering is a highly demanding in terms of infrastructure and consumable resources as well as trained staff. It is difficult for most universities to fund their Post graduate programmes in the same subject with around 10 students; forget about teaching hundreds of them for B.Sc. Biotech. B.Sc. Biotech. students have a carrier in their field only if they do M.Sc./Ph.D. Further most of the students admitted for B.Sc. Agril. Biotech degrees take admission in Private colleges with no facilities or trained well paid staff. They just earn the degree without any learning.

B.Sc. sould be broad covering wide range of topics; while M.Sc./PhD should be highly specific.

If a B.Sc. Biotech. student has a strong will and guts to withstand adversities then Biotechnology can be a good subject After Post Graduation Biotech. students have better potential for entering in research field specially overseas .