page_title: Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya
section_title: Faculty of Horticulture
hierarchical_section_title: Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya / Faculties / Faculty of Horticulture
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of the Faculty of Horticulture, BCKV.
context_page_description: Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, also known as Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, is an agricultural university in West Bengal, India. The university aims to provide higher education in theoretical and technical fields of Agriculture, Horticulture and Agricultural Engineering. It grants Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Bachelor of Technology, Master of Technology and Doctorate degrees and, thus, provides modern and high value education to create scientists with the capability to work at national and international levels.
context_section_description: The Faculty of Horticulture was established in 1996. The objective of creation of the faculty was to initiate education and training in horticulture, to conduct need-based research for the development of horticulture in West Bengal, and to disseminate the technology for growing horticultural crops and post harvest management of produce.
  Initially the faculty functioned with very limited space in the Faculty of Agriculture. Now it is housed in the newly constructed faculty building at Mohanpur. The instructional facilities include one horticultural farm at Mondouri and one nursery at Jagulia. The UG classes are held at Jagulia where a small instructional farm is maintained. The 150-acre farm at Mondouri that is the Horticultural Research Station provides facilities for practical and project works of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students for all the departments under this faculty.
  There are five departments in this faculty:
  Department of Floriculture & Landscaping
  Department of Fruits & Orchard Management
  Department of Post Harvest Technology
  Department of Spices & Plantation Crops
  Department of Vegetable Crops
caption: Faculty of Hort. BCKV
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