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 The university offers,
besides under-graduate and post-graduate courses 10+2 lower level diploma
courses as well. It has programmes in Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry,
Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science, Agricultural Engineering and
Fisheries.
In the Konkan region,
about 5.58 lakhs fallow cultivable waste land could be brought under
rain-fed horticultural crops. The university developed and standardized
the various propagation methods like stone grafting, veneer grafting,
soft-wood grafting in various horticultural crops of the region. It is
producing quality planting material worth 15 lakhs annually.
Notable research
achievements are the development of 34 varieties, including hybrid rice
Sahyadri. To overcome the problem of alternate bearing habit and spongy
tissue in ripe fruits of Alphanso, Ratna variety was developed an also a
parthenocarpic variety Sindhu. It cashew varieties Vengurla 1 to 7 have
been hailed revolutionary. .
In the Fisheries faculty,
the important achievements include rice-cum-fish culture technology,
phased fertilization technique for carp rearing, study of biological and
economic implications of purse-seining, standardization of mesh size for
fishing, development of fish-seed hatchery-cum-spawnery equipment, measure
to reduce puffer meanace, artificial culture of prawns, cross-breeding of
freshwater prawns, formulation of feed for inland fisheries and artificial
rearing of green mussels.
The university has
developed Lakshi Baug concept for the Konkan farming community, in which
0.4 ha from (1 acre) of coconut and spices intercropping orchard, a farmer
can earn Rs 1 lakh per year.
The university has the
Best Agricultural University award in (1997) and Indira Priyadarshani
Vruksha Mitra Puraskar (1996).
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