Bihar Agricultural University


Bihar Agricultural University is an autonomous public state university in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. It was established in 1908 as Bengal Provincial Agricultural College by Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser and was later renamed as Bihar Agricultural College following the partition of Bengal. It was placed under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in 2010 and is the oldest agricultural institute of the state.

Agriculture Knowledge Dissemination System

Bihar Agriculture University is engaged in Research and Extension activities in the field of agriculture. In order to extend the research done in the university to farmers of Bihar, it signed an agreement with World Development Foundation, New Delhi to implement a project of "Agriculture Knowledge Dissemination System". The project basically involved educating the farmers using ICT and video conferencing system for improved agriculture and livestock production.

Colleges

The university has ten colleges:
NameDistrictEstablished
Bihar agriculture college, SabourBhagalpur district1908
Bhola Paswan Shastri Agricultural CollegePurnia District2011
Mandan Bharti Agriculture College, AgwanpurSaharsa district2007
Nalanda College of Horticulture, NoorsaraiNalanda District2006
Dr Kalam Agricultural CollegeKishanganj District2015
VKS College of Agriculture, DumraonBuxar District2011
Forestry collegeMunger District2022
Agriculture Business Management collegePatna District2021
College of Agricultural Engineering, AraBhojpur District2021
College of Agricultural Biotechnology, SabourBhagalpur District2021