Agriculture Fisheries and Life Science

Do you have any affinity towards nature & plants? If yes, botany is the best-suited career for you. In modern science & Industry, Botanist – a person qualified in botany – plays a very important role. It is a branch of biology that studies the structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases and chemical properties and evolutionary relationships between different groups of plants. As one of the oldest sciences, it was the part of the early human efforts – made to identify edible, medicinal & poisonous plants. It is the ecology study interactions of plants with other organisms and the environment which find new species or do experiments to discover how plants grow under different conditions. Well, if talking about the contemporary world, we are facing a lot of new & complex problems that were not even known a century ago. Increasing human population results in increasing environmental problems. Consequently, the need for more food is ...

Being the world’s largest producer of pulses, rice, wheat, spices & spice products, Indian agricultural sector provides employment to the 50% of the country’s workforce. Though, it is considered as a backbone for the Indian economy. About 43% of the country’s total geographical area is used for agricultural activities.             Consequently, there is a need for the progress of agricultural education and research in the country. However, with changing times, this sector has undergone drastic changes. A wide range of courses in agricultural science has been started in India to furnish agri professionals . And it is growing so briskly that it will never run out of job opportunities. Following are some of the widely chose courses of agriculture: B.Sc. Agriculture: A bachelor degree course in agriculture involves the study of agriculture sciences and use of modern scientific equipment and tec...