Agricultural science is a vast multidisciplinary field of biology that comprises the portions of exact, natural, economic, and social sciences that are applied in agricultural practice and understanding. Agricultural scientists, often known as agriculturists, are professionals who work in the field of agriculture. ilovephd compiles a list of Indian institutions that offer a PhD in Agricultural Science in this article.
List of Indian Institutions offering Agricultural Science PhD
1. Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi
Website: www.iari.res.in
Research Areas: Genetics & Plant Breeding; Plant Pathology; Microbiology; Post
Harvest Technology
2. Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, Karnataka
Website: www.iihr.ernet.in
Research Areas: Horticultural Research: Biotechnology; Entomology; Pathology
3. Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra
Website: www.aripune.org
Research Areas: Biodiversity & Palaeobiology, Bioenergy, Bioprospecting, Development Biology, Genetics & Plant Breeding, Nanobioscience
4. National Research Centre on Meat, Boddupal, Hyderabad
Website: www.nrcmeat.org.in
Research Areas: Meat animal and meat inspections; Fresh meat Technology; Processed meat Technology
5. National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana
Website: www.ndri.res.in
Dairy & Food Technology; Dairy Microbiology; Artificial Animal Breeding; Animal Reproduction; Animal Biotechnology; Animal Genomics; Animal Nutrition
6. National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), New Delhi
Website: www.nbpgr.ernet.in
Research Areas: Plant Genetic Resources (PGR) Management and Use, Policy Issues on Exchange of Genetic Resources: Quarantine, IPR; Assessing Economic Value; Conflicts over Ownership Management and Use; National and International Treaties / Legislation; CBD, IT-PGRFA, GPA, PVP&FR Act, Biodiversity Act etc, Genomics and Bioinformatics: Genomic Resources Generation, Use and Conservation, GM Crops; GM Detection Techniques
7. Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Website: fri.icfre.gov.in
Research Areas: Forest Management, Menstruation and JFM Silviculture, Agro Forestry and Urban Forestry, Climate Change, Wood Science and Technology, Biodiversity Conservation, Forest Protection, Chemistry of Natural Product, NWFP; Ecology and Environment, Forest Genetics and Tree Propagation
8. Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Website: ifgtb.icfre.gov.in
Research Areas: Tree improvement; Bamboo Cultivation; Bioprospecting of Forest Natural Resources; Gene function Analysis and Transgenic for Salt and Insect Tolerance in Trees; Climate Change Adaptation Research in Trees with Specific Reference to Elevated CO2; Tree Physiology and Seed Biochemistry; Seed Science & Technology; Species Recovery Research on Threatened Species; Insect Diversity in relation to Tree Cultivation; Biopesticides; Techniques in Mycorrhizae/ Beneficial Microbes (Biofertilizers); Non-Timber Forest Produce and Tree Borne Oil Seeds Genetics; Plant Microbiology
9. Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
Website: tfri.icfre.gov.in
Research Areas: Development of Agroforestry models; Genetics and Plant Propagation; Forest Pathology;
10. Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana
Website: cssri.nic.in
Research Areas: Reclamation and Management of Salt Affected Soils; Physics and Chemistry of Saline and Sodic Soils; Assessment of Salt Affected Soils through Remote Sensing and GIS; Conservation Agriculture and Integrated Nutrient Management on Salt Affected Soils; Enhancing Water Productivity through Multi-Enterprise Agriculture; Management of Poor Quality Waters in Agriculture and Other Land Uses; Bio-Remediation of Waste Waters; Bio-Drainage for Controlling Water Logging and Soil Salinity; Carbon Sequestration Potential in Saline Environment under Changing Climatic Conditions; Solid Waste Management for Soil Improvement
11. Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
Website: www.ivri.nic.in
Research Areas: Veterinary Research: Molecular Diagnosis for Animal Diseases; Rumen Microbes and Their Role in Feed Degradation; Fracture Management in Large Animals; Rapid Detection of Food Borne and Zoonotic Pathogens; Stem Cell Research and Therapeutic Use
12. Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering & Technology, Ludhiana, Punjab
Website: www.ciphet.in
Research Areas: Post-Harvest Engineering: Rapid Evaluation of Food Quality and Safety; Packaging and Storage of Agricultural Produce and Products; Extrusion Processing Technology; Microencapsulation; Milling of Food Grains and Oilseeds
13. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Kerala
Website: www.cmfri.org.in
Research Areas: Marine fish catch estimation through Multistage Stratified Random Sampling; Marine Fish Stock Assessment; Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries Management (EAFM);
14. Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Kochi, Kerala
Website: www.cift.res.in
Research Areas: Harvest and Post-harvest Technology Development in Fisheries – Fishing Technology; Fish Processing Technology; Fish Biochemistry & Nutrition; Microbiology; Biotechnology and Fermentation; Quality Assurance & Management; Fishery Engineering and Fisheries Extension; Economics & Statistics
15. Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Website: www.cifa.in/web/
Research Areas: Aquaculture and Molecular Endocrinology; Fish Genetics and Biotechnology; Soil and Water Quality Management for Freshwater Aquaculture Practices; Feed and Feed Management Technology; Immunology, Nanotechnology
16. Dr. B.V Rao Institute of Poultry Management and Technology, Pune, Maharashtra
Website: poultry-management technology/
17. Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Panagadh, Kerala
Website: www.kufos.ac.in/
Research Areas: Fisheries; Ocean Studies & Technology; Ocean Engineering; Climate Variability & Aquatic
Ecosystems; Management & Social Sciences
18. Central Avian Research Institute, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
Website: www.icar.org.in/cari/
19. Directorate of Sorghum Research, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Website: www.sorghum.res.in/
Research Areas: Sorghum related Research
20. Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Website: www.cazri.res.in
Research Areas: Rodent Control, Arid Legumes
21. Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
Website: www.nbri.res.in/
Research Areas: Development of Varieties; Sustainable Technologies for enhancing Productivity &
Utilization of Potato
22. Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Krishnapuram, Kerala
Website: www.cpcri.gov.in/
Research Areas: Crop Improvement; Production; Protection; Plant Physiology Biochemistry & PHT; Social
Science
23. Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Website:
Research Areas: Agricultural Process Engineering; Incubation Center for Processing of Horticultural Crops; Extrusion Technology; Processing of Cereals, Pulses and Millets; Food Microbiology; Fermentation; Agricultural Waste and Byproduct Utilization; Food Safety and Quality Testing; Food Storage; Packaging Technology; Drying; Processing of Spices and
24. Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Website: www.iivr.org.in/
Research Areas: Applied research for developing technologies to enhance the productivity of vegetable crops; their nutrient quality; post-harvest management and value addition
25. Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar, Rajasthan
Website: http://www.cswri.res.in/thrust_area_infrastructure.asp
Sheep and Wool Research
26. Directorate of Cashew Research, Puttur, Karnataka
Website: www.cashew.res.in/
Research Area: Cashew research
27. National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Website: www.nbfgr.res.in/
Research Areas: Development of fish databases; genetic characterization; gene banks; fish germplasm and habitat inventory; risks analysis of exotic species; diagnostics for OIE notified pathogens; aquatic microbes and other areas of germplasm conservation with special focus on threatened; prioritized and exotic fish species
28. Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Website: http://www.ctcri.org/
Research Areas: Development of agro techniques for tuber crops; development of new varieties of tropical tuber crops; Development of plant protection technologies; Development of processing technologies to add value to tuber crops and machinery for cost-effective processing
29. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, (ICRISAT) Hyderabad, Telangana
Website: http://www.icrisat.org/
Research Areas: Crops genomics and molecular breeding
30 National Centre for Integrated Pest Management (ICAR), Delhi
(www.ncipm.org.in/)
Research Area: Pest Management
31 Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala
Website: http://www.spices.res.in/
Research Areas: Collection, conservation, evaluation and cataloguing of germplasm; Development of varieties of high yield, quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses through conventional and biotechnological approaches; Standardizing propagation methods to ensure large scale production and distribution of high yielding genotypes; Development of agro techniques for increasing production and productivity. Integrated pest and disease management; Post-harvest technology; Socio-economic aspects of cultivation, marketing and information dissemination in spices; Investigation on nutraceuticals and pharmacokinetics aspects of
32. Kakatiya University, Department of Biotechnology and Department of Botany, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh
Website: www.kakatiya.ac.in
Plant tissue culture; Protoplast Culture; Embryo Rescue; In Vitro Mutagenesis; Genetic
Research Areas: Engineering; Molecular Biology; Transgenic Technology; Transplastomic Technology; Root-Knot Nematode interactions; Nitrogen fixation; Telomerase and Cancer Detection; Biomedical Studies; Biodesulfurization and Molecular Markers; Cytology; Cytogenetics and Mutation Breeding; Genetics and Plant breeding; Comparative Morphology; Chemotaxonomy and Palynology; Reproductive Biology; Phycology and Hydrobiology; Mycology & Plant Pathology; Microbiology; Physiology & Tissue Culture; Radiation Botany; Taxonomy and Floristics; Ecology and Plant Biotechnology and Genetic Transformation
33 Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, Maharashtra
Website: www.cicr.org.in/
Crop Improvement, Crop Production, Crop Protection, Post Harvest Technology
34. Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology (CIRCOT), Mumbai, Maharashtra
Website: http://www.circot.res.in/
Research Areas: Improvement in Ginning of cotton; Improvement and Quality Evaluation of Fibre; Yarn and Fabric; Finishing and Dyeing of Cotton with Natural and Environment-Friendly Agents; Utilization of Cotton Plant Residues for Production of Value Added Products; Development of Entrepreneurship for Utilisation of CIRCOT Technologies
35 Directorate of Cashewnut & Cocoa, Agri, Kerala
Website: www.dccd.gov.in/
Cocoa production and processing
36 National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi
Website: www.nrcpb.org
Research Areas: Genetic engineering for biotic resistance; exploitation of heterosis for enhancement of crop productivity; molecular breeding to unlock the genetic potential from diverse germplasm and integrate it into cultivated crop varieties; various crop and microbe genome sequencing projects
37. Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
(www.tanuvas.tn.nic.in)
Research Areas: Animal Biotechnology; Animal Sciences(Research); Animal Health Director of Research
38. National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease (NIVEDI), Bengaluru, Karnataka
Website: www.pdadmas.ernet.in
Research Areas: Epidemiological investigation of livestock diseases; National Animal Disease Referral Expert
System; Prevalence of Leptospira inadai subspecies in man and animals in India identified
39. Indian Institute of Soil Science, (IISS), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Website:
Research Areas: Environmental soil science; Soi Chemistry and fertility; Study of Organic and inorganic nutrient sources affect soil biological activity; effect on runoff; soil and nitrogen losses; Crop productivity in organic farming; Soil physics.
40. Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi
Website: ww.du.ac.in
Research Areas: Pesticide toxicology; bioremediation of pesticide molecules and heavy metals; soil microbial ecology; soil microbial taxonomy; soil health and soil fertility; wastewater treatment; food and feed traceability
41. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bellary Road, Bangalore
Website: www.uasbangalore.edu.in
Research Areas: Develop crop varieties resistant to pests; diseases and drought
42. Sugarcane Breeding Institute, ICAR, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Website: http://www.sugarcane.res.in/
Research Areas: Breeding of superior sugarcane varieties/ genotypes; crop improvement; production and protection aspects of sugarcane
43 National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi
Website: http://www.nipgr.res.in/
Research Areas: Structural and Functional Genomics in plants; Computational Biology; Genome Analysis and Molecular Mapping; Molecular Mechanism of Abiotic Stress Responses; Nutritional Genomics; Plant Development and Architecture; Plant Immunity; Molecular Breeding; Transgenics for crop improvement and other emerging areas based on plant genomics
44. National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP), New Delhi
Website: http://www.ncap.res.in/
Research Areas: Agricultural technology policy; Sustainable agricultural systems; Markets and trade; Institutional change; Agricultural growth and modeling
45. Kerala Forest Research Institute, Thrissur District, Kerala
Website: http://www.kfri.res.in/
Research Areas: Fungicidal management of quick wilt disease; Macrofungal flora of Peechi and Vazhani Wildlife Sanctuary; Biodiversity of plant pathogenic fungi in the Kerala part of the Western Ghats; Ecosystem structure; biodiversity; human dimensions and their linkages of Iringole sacred groves; Conservation of the critically endangered tree Syzygium palghatense Gamble (Myrtaceae) in the Western Ghats
46. Department of Veterinary Parasitology, College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad
Research Areas: Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab
Website: http://www.gadvasu.in/
Research Areas: Veterinary Parasitology Prof. Lachhman Das Singla, Professor & Head
47. Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Raibarel, Lucknow
Website: http://www.iisr.nic.in/
Research Areas: Evaluation of locally adapted sugarcane varieties with improved yield and quality as well as resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses; Development of a package of practices for higher cane sugar production; Development of low-cost technologies for sugarcane production; Intensifying and extending the networking facility and information generation for transfer of technology to the farmers and sugar industry
48. National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Pune, Maharashtra
Website:http://www.niam.res.in/
Research Areas: Basic and strategic research on management of abiotic stresses of crop plants, animals, fishes, and micro-organisms through genetic, biotechnological and nanotechnological tools and agronomic methods for enhanced sustainable productivity, food/feed quality, and farm profitability adopting integrated interdisciplinary approaches
49. National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects, Bangalore, Karnataka
Website:http://www.nbaii.res.in/
Parasitic Hymenoptera(Chalcidoidea & Ichneumonoidea)- Biodiversity;systematic; host-parasitic wasps association/interactions & molecular characterization
50 Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Website: http://www.ciba.res.in/
Research Areas: Development of technoeconomically viable and sustainable culture systems for finfish and shellfish in brackishwater; repository of information on brackishwater fishery resources with a systematic database
51 Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Website: www.cife.edu.in/
Research Areas: Diversification of aquaculture; Biodiversity assessment and conservation; Application of Nanotechnology and biotechnology; Nutraceuticals and nutrigenomics; Genetic Improvement and Genomics; Climate Change and Adaptations; Improved management of aquatic
52 Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi
Website: http://www.svc.ac.in/
Research Areas: Ecology; Entomology; Animal- Plant interactions; Insect Physiology and Plant vaccination
53 Kerala Agricultural\ University, Thrissur, Kerala
Website: www.kau.edu/
Research Areas: Production activities based on land and water; including crop production (agriculture); animal husbandry; forestry and fishery through conducting; interfacing and integrating education; research and extension in these spheres of economic endeavor
54. Institute of Biotechnology, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Website:(www.angrau.ac.in)
Research Areas: Agricultural biotechnology research
55. Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Website: www.ciae.nic.in
Research Areas: Equipment for Commercial Farming; Equipment for Experimental Research
56 Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal
Website:)
Research Areas: Understanding the ecology and production functions of inland water bodies; Ecosystem based fisheries management of reservoirs and wetlands; environmental changes and their impacts on fisheries.
57. Central Institute of Sub-Tropical Horticulture, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Research Areas: Conservation and documentation of germplasm of subtropical fruits; Enhancing productivity of subtropical fruits; Post-harvest management; crop improvement and protection
58. Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Website: http://www.crida.in
Research Areas: Dryland agriculture; sustainable farming systems in the rainfed areas; Agrometeorology; Crop Sciences
59. Central Research Institute for Jute & Allied Fibres, Kolkata, West Bengal
Website: http://www.crijaf.org.in
Research Areas: Crop Improvement; Crop Production; Crop Protection; Agricultural research
60. Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Website:(http://www.csauk.ac.in/)
Research Areas: Integrated gene management; Integrated management of biotic and abiotic stresses; Integrated management of natural resources; Farming system research; Post-harvest handling and value addition; Diversification of agriculture and farm mechanization; Application of remote sensing; GIS & crop modeling in agriculture
61. Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana
Website:)
Organic matter; Crop growth; Waste management; Rice management; Networking of Agricultural Market; Renewable energy agricultural
62 Maharashtra Animal & Fisheries Sciences University (MAFSU), Nagpur, Maharashtra
Website:(http://www.mafsu.in/)
Research Areas: Goat rearing; Sustainable rural development; Pesticide monitoring; Molecular epidemiology (Diseases); Agricultural networking
63 Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Website:(http://www.iipr.res.in/)
Research Areas: Genetics & Plant Breeding and Seed Science & Technology; Plant Biotechnology; Agronomy and social science; ecology, biology and management of major insect pests; Crop Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology & Agricultural Chemistry; Impact Assessment; Socio-Economic Empowerment; Innovative Extension Models; Participatory Seed Production; Supply and Demand Analysis; Costs and Benefits Analysis; Development of Online Information Systems; Crop Estimation using G.I.S. & Remote Sensing Techniques; Development of Forecasting Models.
