The University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore (UAS-B) was the first State Agricultural University (SAU) in Karnataka established in 1963 through an act of the Legislature of the then Mysore State. The visionary leaders of the nation realized the importance of modern science and technology and higher education as means to shore up the woefully inadequate food production in the country. In less than a decade of the establishment of UAS-B and a few other SAUs in the country, India recorded a phenomenal jump in food production and the English language acquired a new phrase – Green Revolution. The rest, as they say is history.

It is a matter of great pride for UAS-B to have played out its role in ushering in a quantum leap in food production in the state through a slew of technological interventions in the 1970s and 80s. read more…