Agronomy

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	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

I^st Semester 2021-22

II^nd Semester 2021-22

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

Dr.P.Amara Jyothi Associate Professor

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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

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)

Additional warden

Memberof village adoption

Stocks in charge in the Dept of Agronomy

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

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

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:

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.

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.