exclusive horticultural university

The Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to set up an exclusive horticultural university to give fillip to education and research, which is set to emerge as a major growth engine for boosting the agriculture in the days to come.The university will be set up on a sprawling campus at Venkataramannagudem near Tadepalligudem in West Godavari district and start functioning from the current academic year.Three constituent horticulture colleges would also be set up at Venkataramannagudem, Anantarajupeta in Kadapa district and Mojerla village in Peddamandadi mandal of Mahbubnagar district with an initial intake of 50 candidates each for the current year that would be increased to 100 from the next academic year.Students undergoing B.Sc (Horticulture) in the existing agricultural colleges would continue to be in the colleges from the second year onwards unless they opt for the new colleges being set up.The University will focus on advanced training in research methodologies & instrumentation, high-tech horticulture, biotechnology, micro-irrigation, fertilisation, integrated pest and nutrient management and product development with post-graduate programmes in fruit, vegetables, floriculture, plantation crops and post-harvest management of horticultural crops.