College of Horticulture
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College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara is one of the ten constituent colleges of Kerala Agricultural University. Kerala Agricultural University is the state agricultural university of Kerala state, India. College of Horticulture imparts agricultural education at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. Established in 1972, it has 16 departments and 7 centres undertaking the multiple activities of teaching, research and extension. The college is located in the picturesque central campus of Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara in Thrissur district, the cultural capital of Kerala on the National Highway 47. The college bagged the Sardar Patel Outstanding Institution Award in the year 2003 awarded by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Over the past 30 years, it has produced more Junior Research Fellows in agriculture than any other institution in the country.
Following are the departments in the college: Departments of Agronomy, Entomology, Meteorology, Soil Science, Agricultural Extension, Plant Pathology, Processing, Statistics, Home Science, Agricultural Economics, Plantation Crops & Spices, Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Plant Breeding & Genetics, Agricultural Engineering, Pomology & Floriculture and Olericulture.
Following are the centers in the college: Center for Gender Concerns in Agriculture, Center for Plant Biotechnolgy & Molecular Biology, Center for Land Resources Management, Radio Tracer Lab, Cadbury-KAU Cocoa Project, Center for Bioinformatics and Agricultural Technology Information Centre.
Besides the departments and centers, the college also has a well stocked fully digitalised library and a centrally air-conditioned modern auditorium.
The college is headed by Dr P. K. Rajeevan, a nationally acclaimed floriculturist. The college also has a very active Students' Union, dominated by Kerala Students' Union activists. For more visit www.kauhort.in
