Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture (PAJANCOA) is an agricultural college established on 2 October 1987 at the village Serumavilangai in Karaikal district of the Union Territory of Puducherry, India. It is an autonomous educational institution that comes under the control and supervision of the government of Puducherry and is affiliated to Pondicherry University, Puducherry.[1] Previously it was affiliated to Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore. The institute celebrated its Silver Jubilee Year in 2012. It is the only agriculture institute in the U.T. of Puducherry having its main campus at Karaikal offering undergraduate and post graduate education.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute
TypePublic
Established1987
Location
Serumavilangai, Karaikal
,
Puducherry
,
India
CampusUrban
AffiliationsPondicherry University
Websitehttps://www.pajancoa.ac.in
PAJANCOA

Research institute

In 1997, PAJANCOA was upgraded as research institute. Since then, it has been called Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute (PAJANCOA & RI).

In 1999, the post graduation program was started in Agricultural Botany, Soil science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Economics and Horticulture with 5 students per discipline per year. In the subsequent year the Department of Agricultural Entomology & Nematology and Agronomy had started offering PG programme. It has 225 acres with six ponds in which a mini botanical garden and an orchard, wet land and garden land are available as cultivable area for research, seed production and cultivation.

See also

References
  1. "Affiliated College of Pondicherry University".

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