The Department of Agricultural Botany is a core department in B.Sc. Agriculture studies. The Department of Agricultural Botany has excellent well equipped modern facilities for efficiently teaching various courses related to Genetics & Plant Breeding, Biotechnology, Crop Physiology, Environmental Sciences & Seed Technology as required for B.Sc. (Agri.) degree. Department is engaged in imparting theoretical as well as practical knowledge to the students. Department is actively involved in the RAWE programme to share knowledge and create awareness among farmers and seed production programme under module to give actual practical knowledge to students.
Current Population of India is estimated to be more than 1.27 billion. India is the most densely populated country in the world after China but it would be at the top position within 2040 years. It would be very difficult to feed such a huge population in the future. In this context knowledge of agricultural botany will be useful to increase the production.