Agriculture

Pakistan is an Agricultural country and District Charsadda boasts vast arable lands with a big farming community. These are the reasons that the Department of Agriculture is one of the pivotal departments in Bacha Khan University, Charsadda. The department encompasses four disciplines: Agronomy, Plant Breeding & Genetics (PBG), Entomology and Human Nutrition & Dietetics (IIND). The Department has a focus to explore, generate and spread knowledge pertaining to agriculture for improving the agriculture sector and so to uplift the socio-economic status of the local farming community and across Pakistan, upon whom the security, peace and prosperity ofthe whole nation is based. The Department has highly qualified and experienced faculty, well equipped laboratories and a Research Farm for students and faculty members. And given the fact that Pakistan is an agricultural country with special focus on the development of the agriculture sector, our graduates have high demand in terms of attaining scholarships for higher study In developed countries and/or to get employment either in academia or agricultural industry.