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.
