Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute (ADAC&RI) is a constituent college of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. It was first started in Kumulur, Lalgudi Taluk of Trichirappalli district with an annual intake of 40 students in the year 1989. Later, the college was shifted to Navalur Kuttapattu, Srirangam Taluk of Trichirappalli District in 1992, to the erstwhile Soil Salinity Research Centre campus.
The Mission of the College is to provide exemplary learning environment and academic activities for transforming students into experts in agricultural technology, research process, transfer of technology and agripreneurship provide innovative solutions for short term and long term issues in agriculture in this region through research, extension and entrepreneurship.
The college is spread over 30 hectares. The college has ten departments viz., Agronomy, Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension and Communication, Agricultural Engineering, Horticulture and Crop Physiology. The college offers one undergraduate programme, B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture and Postgraduate programmes in Agronomy, Soil Science, Genetics and Plant Breeding and Entomology. There are 30 faculty members. Besides there are 10 technicians and 19 provincial skilled mazdoors supporting the administrative, teaching, research and extension activities of the college. The Centre of Excellence on Soil Health and Farm Women Knowledge Centre are also functioning in this College. Read more
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