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the Sardarkrushinagar Danti- tural Education Accreditation Board of signed an MoU with Accrued Gains
wada Agricultural University, ICAR, Delhi and for the past four years Pvt. Ltd, Botswana and Novel Hold-
Banaskantha (#9). Never heard of consecutively we have been awarded 4 ing Inc, USA for the commercial scale
these institutions? Blame their babus star rating by the Government of Gu- production of a banana pseudostem-
innocent of elementary marketing and jarat,” says Dr. Patel. based organic liquid nutrient branded
communication. Although Dr. Patel is appreciative NOVEL. We are also very proud of our
On the other hand, Dr. Z.P. Patel, that survey respondents have award- extension services provided by five
the media-friendly Vice Chancellor of ed NAU a high score for industry Krishi Vigyan Kendras which have
Navsari Agricultural University interface, he believes the university organised 30,000 activities including
(NAU), Gujarat, is pleased that the deserves a higher score under the pa- seminars/workshops and 70 agricul-
20-year-old state government varsity rameter of research and innovation. tural exhibitions and fairs for farmers.
is ranked #3 countrywide with high “At NAU, we accord top priority to More recently, NAU has developed a
scores under the parameters of com- agricultural research. We have estab- Kisan Mitra mobile app to disseminate
petence of faculty, leadership, indus- lished 25 research centres in 15 sites information about agricultural prac-
try interface, placements and range/ which are doing groundbreaking work tices to over 50,000 farmers. We are
diversity of programmes. “NAU’s #3 on mandate crops viz, paddy, sugar- determined not to rest on our laurels,”
India rank will boost the confidence of cane, cotton, sorghum, small millets, adds Patel.
our faculty and students and provide mango, banana, sapota and vegeta- ICAR, Delhi and other publicly
much needed visibility to the univer- bles. Since inception, NAU has devel- funded agriculture universities need
sity’s numerous excellent initiatives. oped more than 114 crop varieties and to take lessons in institutional pride
NAU and its eight constituent colleges 728 technologies which have received and accountability from NAU and Dr.
are accredited by the National Agricul- international attention. Recently we Patel.

Gov. agriculture universities league table

Competence of faculty Curriculum & pedagogy Industry interface (100) Leadership / governance programmes offered (100) TOTAL SCORE (1300)

Rank Faculty welfare & development (100) Research and innovation (300) Placement (100) Infrastructure (150) Internationalism (100) Range/diversity of NIRF 2023* Rank

2021 2022 2023 2024 (150) (100) quality (100)

34 2 1 1 ICAR — Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi 144 81 245 75 72 73 136 66 82 64 1038 1
26 1 2 2 Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 136 75 223 77 73 74 139 76 77 60 1010 3
NR 4 4 3 Navsari Agricultural University 139 79 170 75 71 72 134 70 78 75 963 NR
19 1 3 4 ICAR — National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal 133 78 171 79 74 81 136 72 77 61 962 2
48 3 4 5 Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture &
Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) 135 76 168 74 71 71 135 71 80 69 950 8
NR 7 7 6 Junagadh Agricultural University (JAU) 134 75 163 69 71 70 131 72 78 70 933 38
57 3 5 6 Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural
University, Hisar 141 78 156 73 69 71 129 74 72 70 933 10
37 5 6 7 ICAR —- Indian Veterinary Research Institute,
Izatnagar, Bareilly 136 71 177 68 68 67 130 65 81 64 927 6
89 9 8 8 University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru 133 69 145 73 70 77 145 69 73 69 923 11
53 6 7 9 Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 132 75 162 69 67 73 130 69 77 56 910 5
78 8 8 10 Anand Agricultural University (Gujarat) 123 65 131 69 69 68 128 66 76 61 856 18
NR 10 9 10 Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University,
Banaskantha (Guj) 130 70 123 71 70 65 121 67 73 66 856 NR
89 11 10 11 Central Agricultural University, Imphal 135 67 119 69 64 66 121 66 67 65 839 29
101 12 11 12 Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat 125 65 131 64 65 62 124 57 63 63 819 19

NB: NR= Not Ranked; NIRF= National Institutional Ranking Framework, 2023 of the Union education ministry

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