SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
An Overview
The School of Agricultural Science was established in the 2007-08 academic year as Faculity of Agriculture and rural devlopment with four departments (Animal Sciences and Rangeland Management, Plant Sciences and Protection, Horticulture and Spices, and Land Resource Management).
The SAS was established with the following major objectives:
To produce well-equipped professionals with modern knowledge in different agricultural, natural resource, and rural development disciplines, academic capacities, personal and social attributes, and entrepreneurial skills for the needs of the nation;
To conduct basic and applied researches in the different fields and disseminate the output and their knowledge to stakeholders; and
To provide consultative services on agricultural, natural resource, and rural development problems to various community groups.
Ato Dreje Andualem
Currently the School ’s activities include running effective teaching-learning processes in the four departments. As a newly established faculty, the staff members are developing proposals for fund-raising agencies in order to establish farms and research sites in their respected departments. The FARD is more or less equipped with manpower and materials as a basic input for the achievement of its objectives.In the future, the School plans to establish farms for each department to serve as practical sites for students and researchers, and to provide fresh animal and plant products with low prices to the University and surrounding community as sources of internal income-generation.
We also plan to form collaborations with different sister institutes in the country and abroad, strengthen the existing relations, and equip the departments with human resource in quality, number, and materials.
List of Programs
The School has Three programs under it: