Address: Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India
Banda University of Agriculture and Technology (BUAT; Hindi: बाँदा कृषि एवं प्रौद्योगिक विश्वविद्यालय) is an agricultural university at Banda in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was established in 2010 and classes were started in 2011. It is First Agricultural University of Bundelkhand Region
Mission:
The University is committed to the cause of Indian Agriculture through its quality teaching, demand-driven and location-specific research and extension programmes in the light of dynamism of socio-economic and agro-ecological conditions, management perceptions, international trade’s scenarios and Government policies.
Mandate of the University:
Teaching:
To create human resource, trained in agricultural and allied sciences that may cater the need of 21st century. To produce, scientifically and technically sound graduates with entrepreneurial skills, who can provide employment to unemployed rural and urban youths.
To generate technically-sound humans who can apply their acquired knowledge and skills to diversify and industrialize agriculture for socio-economic transformation of the rural society.
Development of technical skills for coordinating agriculture with industry.
Research:
To generate innovative agriculture technology to make Indian Agriculture globally competitive.
To apply all possible sources of scientific interventions to the solution of the technical and practical problems of agriculture.
To boost up basic research to accelerate the progress of agriculture with the inputs of fundamental knowledge.
To solve the specific agriculture related problems, being faced by farming community.
To formulate specific package of practices for optimization of farmers’income of different holding sizes viz. large, medium, small and marginal.
Extension:
To disseminate the innovative agriculture technologies among the farmers.
To establish partnership with farmers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in agriculture for mutual benefit.
To make the agriculture technology more demand driven.
To facilitate validation, demonstration and adoption of appropriate agro-technologies.
To achieve economic and environmental sustainability through integrated management of productivity, production, marketing and end use of farm produce.