About B.Sc Agriculture

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Botany and Chemistry is a three-year Under-Graduate degree program. This Program can give students an education in the different areas of Agronomy, Fundamental of Entomology, Plant Pathology along wiht Botany and Chemistry subjects..  

Agriculture is a very comprehensive subject that involves various aspects. The entire programme is aimed at making the students understand basic aspects and practices involved in agriculture from seed to seed i.e., production aspects, protection aspects, storage and marketing aspects of an agricultural product. It also involves economic aspects such as cost of production, cost of selling, profit etc, .The student will also able to establish an entrepreneur on his own and help to generate employment to others. By learning extension methodology to transfer of technology, he will acquire good communication skills and equip himself with personality development and become centre of attraction which helps him to become a successful entrepreneur.

This course also makes the students understand the basic requirements such as soil, water, nutrients, implements, labor, plant protection chemicals, finance and their management. The students should understand basic concepts of soil genesis, soil fertility, its various parameters of fertility status and their estimation and soil fertility conservation methods for sustainable agriculture.

The students should understand the life line of crop production i.e, Irrigation – sources of irrigation, water requirement of crops and or plants- critical stages of moisture stress agriculture with different regimes of water supply – abundance to scarcity. Comprehensive and integrated water management practices, water conservation practices particularly in dry land agriculture, rain fed agriculture etc,.

The students should be well versed with production aspects of agriculture, such as crop selection , varietal selection within crops based on resources and weather parameters , such as irrigation resources, rainfall quantity, distribution , droughts, floods , saline waters etc,.

he students should be well aware of field diagnostic techniques and crop conditions to identify nutritional disorders, biotic and abiotic stresses to the crop such as pests, diseases, salinity, moisture stress, (low & excess) and other problems.

This course must give the students a thorough understanding of crop cultivation, preservation and marketing, By the end of the course, the students should realize that farming is a viable and profitable option. This enables the students to be entrepreneurs and job providers rather than job seekers

Eligibility

Intermediate Examination (10+2 pattern) with MPC and Bi.P.C/PUC with Science group. Diploma with Agriculture(any two of this)  

If you have passion in Agriculture and love the farmers and/ot strong desire to settle in Agri Business, this is the right course

Course Structure & Syllabus

This course syllabus is structured similar to other Degree Courses. It will have six semester and the students will be exposed to the basic language, english and other skill oriented courses in addition to the combination courses in the first three semesters   

Course Subject Combinations

Semester	Agriculture	Botany	Chemistry
I Semester	Agronomy-I	Fundamentals of Microbes and Non-vascular Plants	Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
II Semester	Agronomy-I	Basics of Vascular plants and Phytogeography	Organic and General Chemistry
III Semester	Fundamentals of Entomology	Anatomy and Embryology of Angiosperms,Plant Ecology and Biodiversity	Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy
IV Semester	Fundamentals of Plant Pathology	Plant Physiology and Metabolism	Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry

Career Scope

Once the educational degrees are completed, candidates can work in their own farm, by utilizing the knowledge that they have learned during the course and improve the productivity by making agriculuture profitable.

Can work in Government sector as officers at village level, mandal level and district level

Can work in Private Agri sector in various positions

Career/Job Opportunities

Employment Position	Employment Areas:
Teaching Asst	Public & private B Voc Colleges
Technical Assst	Public and private agri industries involved in the ag inputs
Marketing Managers	Public and private agri industries involved in the ag inputs
Extension officers	Public and private agri industries involved in the ag inputs
Mandal Agriculture Officer	Dept of Agriculture
AEO	Dept of Agriculture
Technical Assst	Dept of Agriculture