Tirhut College of Agriculture

The long cherished desire of agricultural community of Mithilanchal (North Bihar) was fulfilled on 18^th August, 1960 when the foundation stone of Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi in Muzaffarpur district was laid by the first Chief Minister of Bihar Late Dr. Srikrishna Singh. The aspirations from the College were deployment of excellent source of agricultural knowledge and transformation of this vast fertile land tract of North Bihar in to granary bowl for upliftment of peasantry. The college was started with a handful of teachers led by Prof. S K Mukharjee as first Principal and one hundred students in 1961. The first batch of student passed out from the college in the year 1963. The college awards B. Sc. (Ag.) degree to the eligible candidates.

The college is situated at the cultural interface of Tirhut and Mithila. Its geographical location is 25.98° N and 85.60° E at an altitude of 52.18 m above msl. The campus is almost equidistant (30 Km) from Muzaffarpur and Samastipur and 100 Km from the state capital Patna.

Mandate

• Providing agricultural education to young aspirants.
• Tackling the problems of agriculture.
• Dissemination of agricultural knowledge/ technologies.

Scholarship

Govt. of Bihar provides stipend of Rs. 2,000/= per month to the students with an additional contingency of Rs. 6,000/= per year for the purchase of study materials. Similarly, a provision of stipend is also there for ICAR candidates.

Campus

The building complex started developing at Dholi with the inception of college in the elegant bank of Burhi Gandak River. The first batch of students along some teachers was shifted to almost half built accommodation at Dholi in 1963. The college has developed as a beautiful campus with the facilities of modern teaching, advanced research and the other civic amenities. It has now the feathers of Golden Jubilee with glorious past. Thousands of students passed out from the college and earned a lot of glory.  During the period, notable successes have been achieved in field of teaching, research and extension and still a lot of innovative efforts are being made by devoted and dedicated employees of the college to keep pace with agriculture and employment opportunities in the changing climatic scenario.

The college has well qualified faculty in all the 12 departments supported by the specialized faculty members of the PG departments of the university.

College maintains the teaching and research environment with regular up gradation of basic infrastructure. Well furnished modern classrooms, laboratories with modern instruments, Computer Lab. with internet facility, seminar room, conference hall, training hall, common room, auditorium, lush green play ground and a canteen within the campus provides good environment for education and overall personality development. The college is completely residential. Separate hostels with all basic amenities are available for boys and girls.

Recently, special courses/ training like Soil Testing, Plant Health Clinic, Bio-fertilizer production, Mushroom cultivation, Seed Technology, Apiculture, Agri-Horti, Floriculture and Nursery Management have been included in the programme to generate ability for better global opportunity. In addition, the final year students are sent to Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society, JEEViKA for farmer’ field experience under Rural Agricultural Work Experience (RAWE) programme for six months.

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