AAU

Departments

Agricultural Economics

Agricultural Engineering

Agricultural Meteorology

Agricultural Statistics

Agronomy

Animal Husbandry & Dairying

Biochemistry

Entomology

Extension Education

Horticulture

Nematology

Plant Breeding & Genetics

Plant Pathology

Plant Physiology

Soil Science

Tea Husbandry & Technology
Colleges

College of Agriculture

Biswanath College of Agriculture

Sarat Chandra Sinha College of Agriculture

College of Veterinary Science

Lakhimpur College of Veterinary Science

College of Community Science

College of Fisheries

College of Horticulture and Farming System Research

College of Sericulture

Extension Education Institute, NE Region

Horticulture

The Department of Horticulture came into existence with the establishment of the Biswanath College of Agriculture in 1988 with the objective of teaching horticulture in B.Sc. (Agri.) degree programme. The mandate of the department is to expertise the students in the field of horticulture both theoretically and practically. The department has been conducting the UG courses as per 5^th Dean’s Committee syllabus since 2016. Experiential learning programme (ELP) on ‘Commercial Horticulture’ was started in the department from 2013-14. All the 4^th year, B. Sc. (Hons) Agriculture students of this college and Sarat Chandra Sinha College of Agriculture (SCSCA), Dhubri have been joining ELP conducted by the department since 2017-18. PG programme in the department of Horticulture has been started from the academic session 2011-12 with enrollment of 5 students. Total seats in M. Sc. (Agri) programme in the department has been increased to 6 from 2016-17. From the first batch in 2011-12 to the 10^th batch of 2020-21 academic sessions, a total of 52 students have enrolled in M. Sc. (Agri) programme and 40 students have successfully completed M. Sc. (Agri) in Horticulture till 2019-20. At present 12 students are on roll. The department has established one well equipped laboratory to conduct practical classes and to carry out the laboratory works related to researches by the PG students.

An area of 30.0 ha land was earmarked for establishing Instructional cum Research (ICR) farm outside the college campus but 7.2 ha of land was handed over to Central Citrus Research Institute, Nagpur to establish Regional Research Centre for Citrus in 2016-17 as per MoU with Assam Agricultural University. At present, a total of 22.8 ha of land are under the department of Horticulture where field practical classes are conducted, vegetables, flowers and fruit crops are cultivated and field experiments of PG students are conducted. The infrastructures namely, classrooms, polyhouses, net houses, working shed, implement shed, overhead water tank and drip irrigation system in the ICR farm have been developed with the fund available from ICAR, RKVY, Technology Mission and NAHEP. The department is also resourceful with one tractor and one power tiller with their accessories.

Present status of manpower of the department

Sl. No.	Name	Designation	Specialization	Date of joining in the
Sl. No.	Name	Designation	Specialization	AAU service	Department
Faculty
1	Dr. Bhakta Prasad Gautam	Professor & i/c of Department	Vegetable Science	02/05/1988	27/09/2000
2	Dr. Dharindra Nath Hazarika	Professor	Fruit Science	21/10/1988	24/07/2009
3	Dr. Supriya Langthasa	Professor	Post harvest management	07/01/1991	24/07/2009
4	Mrs. Nayanmoni Buragohain	Assistant Professor	Vegetable Science	08/08/2011	13/08/2018
5	Dr. Kishalayee Gogoi	Assistant Professor	Floriculture	05/04/2018 as Ad-hoc	31/07/2019
5	Dr. Kishalayee Gogoi	Assistant Professor	Floriculture	01/08/2019	01/08/2019
Supporting staff
6	Mr. Rituparna Rajashree Das	Field Assistant	---	26/10/2015	26/10/2015

UG Courses
#	Course No.	Course Title	Course Credit	Syllabus
1	ELP-420 (VII) ^*	Commercial Horticulture	5(0 + 5)
2	Hort(Elect)-313	Protected Cultivation	3(2 + 1)
3	Hort-112 ^*	Fundamentals of Horticulture	2(1 + 1)
4	Hort-112(i) ^*	Introduction to Forestry	2(1 + 1)
5	Hort-122 ^*	Production technology for fruit crops	2(1 + 1)
6	Hort-213 ^*	Production technology of flowers, medicinal and aromatic plants and landscaping	3(2 + 1)
7	Hort-222 ^*	Post-harvest Management and Value Addition of Fruits and Vegetables,	2(1 + 1)
8	Hort-323 ^*	Production Technology of Vegetables and Spices	3(2 + 1)
9	THT-212 ^*	Production Technology of Plantation Crops,	2(2 + 0)
* courses are compulsory

Masters Courses
#	Course No.	Course Title	Course Credit	Syllabus
1	FLA-501 ^*	BREEDING OF FLOWER CROPS AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS	3(2 + 1)
2	FLA-502 ^*	PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF CUT FLOWERS	3(2 + 1)
3	FLA-503 ^*	PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY FOR LOOSE FLOWERS	3(2 + 1)
4	FLA-504 ^*	LANDSCAPING AND ORNAMENTAL GARDENING	3(2 + 1)
5	FLA-505	PROTECTED FLORICULTURE	3(2 + 1)
6	FLA-506	VALUE ADDITION IN FLOWERS	3(2 + 1)
7	FLA-507 ^*	TURFING AND TURF MANAGEMENT	3(2 + 1)
8	FLA-508	CAD FOR OUTDOOR AND INDOORSCAPING	3(2 + 1)
9	FSC-501 ^*	TROPICAL AND DRY LAND FRUIT PRODUCTION	3(2 + 1)
10	FSC-502 ^*	SUBTROPICAL AND TEMPERATE FRUIT PRODUCTION	3(2 + 1)
11	FSC-503 ^*	BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION OFFRUIT CROPS	3(2 + 1)
12	FSC-504	CANOPY MANAGEMENT IN FRUIT CROPS	2(1 + 1)
13	FSC-505	PROPAGATION AND NURSERY MANAGEMENT 2+1 FOR FRUIT CROPS	3(2 + 1)
14	FSC-506 ^*	BREEDING OF FRUIT CROPS	3(2 + 1)
15	FSC-507	POST HARVEST TECHNOLOGY FOR FRUIT CROPS	3(2 + 1)
16	FSC-508	GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFHORTICULTURAL	3(2 + 1)
17	FSC-509	BIOTECHNOLOGY OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS	3(2 + 1)
18	FSC-510	ORGANIC HORTICULTURE	2(1 + 1)
19	FSC-511	PROTECTED FRUIT CULTURE	3(2 + 1)
20	FSC-512	GAP FOR HORTICULTURAL CROPS	1(1 + 0)
21	FSC-513	CLIMATE MANAGEMENT IN HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTION	1(1 + 0)
22	PSMA-501 ^*	Production Technology of Plantation Crops,	3(2 + 1)
23	PSMA-502 ^*	PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF SPICE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
24	PSMA-503 ^*	PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY FOR MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC CROPS	3(2 + 1)
25	PSMA-504 ^*	BREEDING OF PLANTATION CROPS AND SPICES	3(2 + 1)
26	PSMA-505 ^*	BREEDING OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC CROPS	3(2 + 1)
27	PSMA-506 ^*	PROCESSING OF PLANTATION CROPS, SPICES MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS	3(2 + 1)
28	PSMA-507	ORGANIC SPICE AND PLANTATION CROP PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY	3(2 + 1)
29	PSMA-508	UNDEREXPLOITED MEDICINALANDAROMATIC CROPS	2(1 + 1)
30	VSC-501 ^*	PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OFCOOL SEASON VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
31	VSC-501 ^*	PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OFCOOL SEASON VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
32	VSC-501 ^*	PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OFCOOL SEASON VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
33	VSC-502 ^*	PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF WARM SEASON VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
34	VSC-502 ^*	PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF WARM SEASON VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
35	VSC-503 ^*	BREEDING OF VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
36	VSC-503 ^*	BREEDING OF VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
37	VSC-504 ^*	GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
38	VSC-504 ^*	GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
39	VSC-505	SEED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
40	VSC-505	SEEDPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF VEGETABLE CROPS	3(2 + 1)
41	VSC-506	SYSTEMATICS OF VEGETABLE CROPS	2(1 + 1)