Sri Karan Narendra College of Agriculture

Shri Karan Narendra college of Agriculture in Jobner, Rajasthan , India (popularly known as S K N College of Agriculture) is the first agricultural college of the Rajasthan. The S K N College of Agriculture, Jobner is the campus college of Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner.

History

Late Rawal Karan Singh of Jobner had inspired by Swami Dayanand Saraswati and established Anglo-Vedic High School in the year 1893. His son Rawal Narendra Singh upgraded the school to Shri Karan Narendra College of Agriculture or simply SKN College of Agriculture in the year of Indian independence, July 1947. At the time of creation this was the only institute devoted to agricultural education in the state of Rajasthan in India. At present it has 15 departments and offer B.Sc.(Ag.) Hons, M.Sc.(Ag.) in 9 and Ph.D in 7 subjects. The faculty is 100 strong and the non-teaching faculty is 400 strong. The student enrollment is about 400. The library of this college established in 1947, is attached to present extension department, it has total collection of 42000 books and journals ,it has database collections like CAB /AGRIS /AGRICOLA /PGRABST and other audio visual CD. After 1996 Dr K M Krishna Assistant Librarian, Jewel of India has taken all possible efforts to improve and modernise the library by adding new infrastructures and new services to library In 2004 Internet-CDROM unit has been started for all students and staff. It started with dial up network to ERNET to WIFI system now . The other added units are reprographic, audio visual, Book-Bank unit ,periodical unit ,technical unit ,old stack unit for books and journals, CCTV system etc of the library. He has been awarded jewel of India eminent citizen award in 2006 for outstanding contributions in library services.

Admission Procedure

Degrees Offered : B.Sc. (Ag.) Hons, M.Sc. (Ag.), Ph.D

B.Sc. (Ag.) Hons

Admission to B.Sc (Ag.) Hons Part-I is done through Joint Entrance Test (JET) conducted either by the Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner or Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur. The minimum eligibility for a candidate to appear in the JET is that the candidate must have passed 12th of the 10+2 (Academic) scheme of examination with Agriculture/Science groups.Reflist

Teaching

The college imparts training in basic at UG level as well as scientific skills, by PG level (M.Sc.(Ag.), Ph.D) with a view to prepare a student career directly and indirectly concerned with the uplifment of agricultural community.

Departments

Research

Here, at S K N College of Agriculture, Jobner many research projects sponsored by the ICAR and other funding agencies are located at this campus in many departments. These include the following:A.I.C.R.P. on SpicesA.I.C.R.P on oil seed-taramiraA.I.C.R.P. on Arid Fruits

Achivements of A.I.C.R.P. on Spices: The spices project which is running in the department is dealing with the improvement of coriander, cumin, fennel and fenugreek. Till date, a large number of germplasm of these crops has been collected, evaluated and is being scientifically maintained. Some varieties like RCr-20, RCr-41, RCr-435 and RCr-436 of coriander , RZ-19 and RZ-223 of cumin, RF-101, Rf-143 and RF-125 of fennel and RMt-1 and RMt-305 of fenugreek have been released for general cultivation in the state. The package of practices for the crops have been developed. The quality aspects on the seed spices for improving the quality to make them more attractive for the export are being worked out.Varieties released/identified :Crop Variety Year of release/ Identify Duration (days) Av. yield (qha) StatusCoriander RCr-20 1996 100-110 15.5 Released for the state RCr-41 1988 140-145 10-12 Released for the state RCr-435 2004 110-130 11.0 Released for the state RCr-436 2002 90-100 15.0 Released for the state RCr-446 2001 110-130 12.8 Identified for National release RCr-684 1999 110-130 10.0 Identified for National release RCr-480 2006 110-130 13.25 Identified for release for the stateCumin RZ-19 1988 120-130 5.7 Released for the state RZ-209 1995 120-130 6.7 Identified for release for the state RZ-223 2007 120-130 6.0 Released and notified by CVRC RZ-341 2006 120-130 4.5 Identified for release for the stateFennel RF-101 2002 150-160 16.0 Released for the state RF-125 2004 130-140 17.0 Released for the state RF-143 2007 140-150 18.0 Released and notified by CVRC RF-178 2006 130-140 16.0 Identified for release for the stateFenugreek RMt-1 1990 140-150 15.0 Released for the state RMt-143 1997 140-150 16.5 Identified for release for the state RMt-303 1999 140-150 19.0 Identified for National release RMt-305(first Determinate) 2007 120-125 18.0 Released and notified by CVRC RMt-351 2006 140-150 18.41 Identified for release for the state

The First Bach

The S. K. N College's very first batch, that had enrolled in this first agriculture college of state in the July, 1947 and they became the part of remembrance in the history of the college, always were as;

References

* "Information Bulletin" (2006- 07). Faculty of Agricultural, Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner. [edited by: Dr. S. P. Majumdar and Dr. A. C. Mathur]
* REMINISCENCES (1947-1997). On Golden Jubilee of S K N College of Agriculture, Jobner. [Chief Editor: Dr. B.R. Chhipa]

External links

*http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jun252008/1547.pdf
*http://www.icar.org.in/dipa/events/ICAR-REPORTER/july-sept2005.pdf
*http://www.librariandesk.blogspot.com
*http://libraryataglance2000-2004.blogspot.com/
*http://retailinformationmanagement.blogspot.com/
*http://listsofcurrentjournalsskncoajobner.blogspot.com/
*http://www.agriculturenewsletter.blogspot.com/http://doctoralthsesofraubikaner.blogspot.com/