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  Sunday, February 05, 2012
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UAS Colleges
College of Agriculture - Bangalore
College of Agriculture - Shimoga
College of Agriculture - Mandya
College of Agriculture - Hassan
College of Forestry - Ponnampet
College of Sericulture-Chintamani
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  Laboratory  
  Laboratory Equipments    
  The university has well equipped specialized laboratory / research units with sophisticated equipments to carry out both fundamental and applied research in the area of agricultural sciences. The UAS has a common instrumentation room, which is accessible to both faculty and postgraduate students. Each department has adequate equipments / instruments, to carryout research in the respective discipline. Sophisticated instrumentation facilities developed at the university have been the major strengths to carry out advanced research in several areas and provide options for postgraduate students to get adequate exposure in recent modern biology techniques. Some of the sophisticated equipments and specialized facilities available are presented in below  
  At Agricultural College, GKVK  
 
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer
High Performance Liquid Chromatography Kjedahl Unit
Gas Chromatograhy Sophisticated Microscopes
Liquid Scintillation Counter UV Spectrometers
Portable Photosynthetic system Steady State Porometers
Psychrometer UV Cross Linkers
UV trans Illuminator Gel Documentation System
Neutron Probe Amino Acid Analyser
Ultracentrifuge Auto clams hybridization ovens
Deep Freezers Incubators
ELISA Readers CO2 Incubators
 
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  Specialized Facilities  
  Specialized Facilities    
 
Crop Museum Mulberry germplasm
Tissue Culture Laboratories Rain-out-shelter facilities
Molecular Biology Laboratories Cold room
Aromatic and Medicinal plants garden Mushroom production unit
Playhouse and growth chambers Biofertilizers production unit
Pedonarium Virology Laboratory
  Crop Museum  
  A Central Museum is established at the old Agricultural College building of Hebbal Campus having carpet area of 1040 sq.mtrs. There is also a live museum attached to it in an extent of 2.00 ha. There is a Botanical Garden at GKVK campus spread over an area of about 25 ha. with a Herbarium and green house.  
  National Seed Project  
  The UAS has been operating seed technology research scheme sanctioned under National Seed Project –II since 1980-81. The scheme has well equipped field, laboratories, processing units etc., to conduct research in multidiscipline areas like entomology, pathology, post-harvest engineering and technology, agronomy and plant breeding etc. It has two processing units, one with 1 TPH at GKVK and another with 0.5 TPH at ARS, Kathalagere. These units undertake processing of breeder seeds produced at different seed farms up to grading, packing and labelling. The unit provides the entire infrastructure available for post-graduate research, besides exposing the undergraduate students to activities and training them. So far, more than 40 P.G. students have availed facilities from the scheme. The scheme has qualified technocrats to guide and train research students. The unit is also helpful to impart training to seed growers and other farmers.  
     
  Administration & Staff  
  Administrative Building  
  The Central Administrative Offices are located at Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra (GKVK) . The administrative block with a carpet area of 3659 sq.m. houses the offices of the Vice-Chancellor, Dean, Registrar, Comptroller, Administrative Officer, Director of Research, Director of Student Welfare and the Board Meeting Hall. The Main Administrative building has been provided with lifts, uninterrupted power supply, Computer Network system, Telephone, E-mail, Fax  
  Staff Residential Facilities  
  The university campuses have residential accommodation for teachers, scientists and farm labours on the campuses. On the whole the UAS provides accommodation to 430 employees. At the Hebbal campus there is a Colony Staff Club which is organizing activities like sports, cultural activities for the staff members and also running a school for the benefit of its members and UAS Employees from Nursery to 10th Standard for about 1000 students