As a part of the Agricultural College NairaDept of Agronomy started it’s function from 7 th August, 1989 by the APAU (ANGRAU) under Government of Andhra Pradesh .The Post Graduation programme in the department of Agronomy has been started from the academic year 2010-11with four seats. Since then, the PG programme has been on its track and as of now ten batches (32 students) have been admitted into PG programme at this college and the first eight batch students (25) were awarded and 11 students pursuing master’s degree, majoring in Agronomy. Six out of 25 students of this college got admission to Ph.D programme
across the country.
Faculty strength:
S.No | Sanctioned Faculty | Faculty in Place | Vacant Position | Faculty Recommended |
1. Professor | NIL | NIL | — | 1 |
2. Associate professor | One | Professor(CAS) adjusted in the vaccancy | Nil | 1 |
3. Assistant professor | Two | Two | Nil | 5 |
4.Farm Superintendent | One | One | Nil | 1 |
Faculty in Dept of Agronomy working:
S.No | Name of the faculty | Designation | Educational
Qualification |
Service in the University | Assigned programmes |
1 | Dr. A. Upendra Rao
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Professor & Head | Ph.D | 20 years and 7 months | U.G&P.G |
2 | Dr. G.Jogi Naidu | Professor & Head | Ph.D. | 29 years and 9 months | U.G&
P.G |
3 | Dr. B Rajendra Kumar | Asst. Professor | Ph.D. | 11 years | U.G&
P.G |
4 | Dr. B. Jyothi Basu | Asst. Professor | Ph.D. | 5 years | U.G |
Course distribution among faculty
S.No | Name of the faculty | Courses handling/handled | Other duties assigned | |
Ist Semester 2021-22 | IInd Semester 2021-22
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1 | Dr. A. Upendra Rao
Professor & Head |
AGRO 102(2+1)
AGRO 103(1+1) AGRON 501(3+0) AGRON 591(1+0) |
AGRO 101(1+0)
AGRO 103 (1+1) AGRO204(1+1)T AGRON 511(2+0) PGS 502 (0+1) |
OAM(UG)
HOD for Agronomy and Farm Managing Director of EL unit Member of IDP programme
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2 | Dr.P.Amara Jyothi Associate Professor | — | AGRO 102 (2+1)
AGRO202(2+1)T AGRO304(1+1)T AGRO306(2+1)T AGRON502(2+1) |
PG in-charge Dept of Agronomy
Ad Representative for RAWEP |
3 | Dr. B Rajendra Kumar
Asst. Professor |
AGRO 104(1+1)
AGRO 204(1+1) AGRO 303(1+1) AGRO 304(1+1) AGRON 504(2+1) |
AGRO104(1+1)T
AGRO201(2+1)T AGRO 203 (1+0) AGRO204(1+1)P AGRO 303 (1+1) AGRON 507(1+1)
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Additional warden
Memberof village adoption Stocks in charge in the Dept of Agronomy
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4 | Dr. B. Jyothi Basu
Asst. Professor |
AGRO 201(2+1)
AGRO 202(2+1) AGRO 301(1+1) AGRO302(0+1) |
AGRO 301 (1+1)
AGRO-302 (0+1) AGRON 503(2+1) |
Farm Superintendent
Manager of EL unit Convener for MSRI Unit. Member of out sourcing seed production Incharge of JRF cell, Dept of Agronomy
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6 | Teaching Associates
(Two members) |
AGRO 103(1+1)
AGRO 104(1+1) AGRO 201(2+1) AGRO 202(2+1) AGRO 203 (1+0) AGRO 204(1+1) AGRO 303(1+1) AGRO 304(1+1) |
AGRO 104(1+1)P
AGRO 201(2+1)P AGRO 202(2+1)P AGRO 304(1+1)P AGRO 306(2+1)P
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Assisting in Coding during Examinations |
U.G.Courses offered in the Dept.
S. No. | Course No. | Title | Credit Hours |
1 | AGRO-101 | Agriculture Heritage | 1+0 |
2 | AGRO-102 | Fundamentals of Agronomy | 2+1 |
3 | AGRO-103 | Introductory Agrometeorology and Climate Change | 1+1 |
4 | AGRO-104 | Introduction to Forestry | 1+1 |
5 | AGRO-201 | Crop Production Technology-I | 2+1 |
6 | AGRO-202 | Crop Production Technology-II | 2+1 |
7 | AGRO-203 | Farming Systems and Sustainable Agriculture | 1+0 |
8 | AGRO-204 | Irrigation Water Management | 1+1 |
9 | AGRO-301 | Geoinformatics and Nanotechnology for Precision Farming | 1+1 |
10 | AGRO-302 | Practical Crop Production | 0+1 |
11 | AGRO-303 | Rainfed Agriculture and Watershed Management | 1+1 |
12 | AGRO-304 | Principles of Organic Farming | 1+1 |
Elective Courses to be offered by Dept of Agronomy | |||
13 | ELCT 305 | Agricultural Waste management | 2+1 |
14 | ELCT 306 | Weed Management | 2+1 |
- Dept of Agronomy handling Elp of Commercial seed production
P.G.Courses offered in the Dept.
S.No | Course No. | Title of the Course | Credits |
1 | AGRON 501 | Modern concepts in crop production. | 3+0 |
2 | AGRON 502 | Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management. | 2+1 |
3 | AGRON 503 | Principles and Practices of Weed Management. | 2+1 |
4 | AGRON 504 | Principles and Practices of Water Management. | 2+1 |
5 | AGRON 506 | Agronomy of Major Cereals and Pulses. | 2+1 |
6 | AGRON 507 | Agronomy of Oilseed, Fibre and Sugar Crops. | 2+1 |
7 | AGRON 512 | Dryland Farming and Watershed Management. | 2+1 |
8 | AGRON 591 | Masters Seminar. | 1+0 |
P.G. Progress at the Dept.:
Year | No of Students Joined M.Sc (Ag)-Agronomy | No of students Completed degree | No of Students got Ph.D | No of Students Got jobs |
Up to 2019-20 | 32 | 25 | 06 | 19 |
2020-21 | 04 | 03 | — | — |
2021-22 | 04(All the Students Got approval of PG 1 &2 forms and submitted PG 3 for approcval to Dean PG Studies |
No of Students Registered for JRF got PG Fellowship /Seats in the Dept of Agronomy during 2018-21
Year | No of Students Registered for JRF | No of students got JRF | No of students joined PG without JRF | Total No of students joined PG |
2018-19 | 24 | 05 | 06 | 11 |
2019-20 | 14 | 02 | 05 | 07 |
2020-21 | 20 | — | 10 | 10 |
Class Rooms & Laboratories:
- Two Class rooms & One laboratory are available for PG students with facilities
- sufficient enough to conduct theory and as practical classes
College Farm sprawling in an area of 251 acres with wet, rainfed and garden lands available to meet the requirement of the PG research programme in addition to UG prerequisites at this college.
List of important equipment in the Dept.:
S.No | Name of the equipment | No of units |
1 | Rapid moisture meter | 2 |
2 | Lux meter | 1 |
3 | Laptop Computer( Compaq Presario-C 738 TU) | 1 |
4 | Barometers(Aneroid type – 100mm dia0 | 2 |
5 | Tensio meters | 2 |
6 | LCD projector (Sony make) along with screen and stand | 1 |
7 | Laboratory willy mill | 1 |
8 | Spectophotometer | 1 |
9 | Miniature models of agricultural implements | 21 |
10 | Portable electronic balance | 1 |
11 | Hot air oven | 1 |
12 | Digital temperature control cum Indicator for hotair oven | 1 |
13 | Lenova compuer | 1 |
14 | Conductivity meter, VSI Make | 1 |
15 | PH Meter, VSI Make | 1 |
16 | Compac computer | 1 |
17 | Kemi hot air oven | 1 |
18 | Sony LCD Projector | 1 |
19 | Soil moisture and PH Meter | 1 |
20 | Dickey john’s Multi grain Moisture Meter | 2 |
21 | Runoff stage level recorder | 1 |
22 | Soil auger (screw type) | 6 |
23 | Refractometer (Abbes type) | 2 |
24 | Thermister thermometer | 3 |
25 | Barograph | 1 |
26 | Cup counter anemometer | 1 |
27 | Infra red moisture balance | 1 |
28 | Infra red thermo meter | 1 |
29 | Psychrometer | 1 |
30 | Light meter | 1 |
31 | Double ring infiltrometer | 2 |
32 | Water meter 2’’ | 1 |
33 | Run off stage level recorder | 1 |
34 | Parshall flume | 2 |
35 | Hot air oven | 1 |
Conduct of practical and hands on training:
UG | ü Identification of different crops, weeds and trees
ü Measurement of weather parameters and tabulation of weather data ü Identification of fertilizers, manures, seeds, varieties in different crops ü Identification of off-types and rougues in crops ü Students shall acquainted with calculating the seed rate, fertiliser dose, herbicide dose etc. ü Students shall acquainted with yield estimation in different crops ü Measurement and scheduling of irrigation water ü Method and time of application of manures, fertilizers and herbicides ü Art and science of raising popular crops of the tract on sound scientific lines ü Providing opportunity to the students to have hands on experience on water, nutrient and weed management in a number of arable crops. ü Field configuration and crop establishment techniques for sole , inter, and multi- storeyed crops/systems ü Execution and operationalization of multi commodity oriented integrated farming system units etc. |
PG | ü Preparation of filed Lay out the field as per the statistical design.
ü Collection of soil and crop data as per the requirement of experiment. ü Recording of biometric observations from various crops as per the need of the experimentation. ü Soil and plant analysis as per the experiment. ü Estimation of use efficiency of different resources like irrigation water, nutrient use etc. ü Tabulation and data analysis and interpretation of data using different statistical tools ü Documentation of experimental results discussing the result for drawing logical inferences. ü Collection, compilation and reviewing literature review ü Writing research and popular article.
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Dr. G.Jogi Naidu
Professor & Head![](https://agcollegenaira.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Dr.A.Upendra-Rao.jpg)
Dr.A.Upendra Rao,
Professor & Head, Dept.![](https://agcollegenaira.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/B.-Rajendra-Kumar.jpg)
B. Rajendra Kumar
Assistant Professor![](https://agcollegenaira.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Dr.-B.-Jyothi-Basu.jpg)