A study on relevance of post graduation research in plant sciences: A case study of Karnataka state agricultural universities

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Kumarswamy A. Hiremath (Department of Agronomy, AEEC Nalwar (UAS Raichur), Karnataka)
Krishna S. Maraddi (College of Agriculture, Kalaburagi (UAS Raichur), Karnataka)
B. Arunkumar (Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Bheemarayanagudi (UAS Raichur), Karnataka)
Vijayachandra S. Reddy (Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Kalaburagi (UAS Raichur), Karnataka)

The findings reveals that, among selected farm universities in Karnataka state, the preferred research areas in subject of plant sciences like department of agricultural microbiology, genetics and plant breeding, plant pathology and seed science and technology, has focused research on biofertilizers, heterosis and combining ability, characterization of disease and seed testing respectively as major researchable areas in farm university in case of University of agricultural Sciences, Raichur and which more or less similar in all remaining universities such as University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad and Bangalore. The study also reveals that, post graduate research relevance was highest in plant pathology and least relevance was found in seed science and technology. Hence, study suggests that, research areas should be focused on current regions of overall agriculture development and research relevance to be focused on present problems which can address the farming communities ongoing issues.

Keywords: education, agriculture, relevance, post graduate, plant science