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Type
  
Public

Affiliation
  
UGC, NAAC, AIU

Phone
  
02426 243 861

Chancellor
  
C. Vidyasagar Rao

Established
  
29 March 1968

Vice-Chancellor
  
Dr. K.P. Vishwanatha

Founded
  
29 March 1968

Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth

Motto in English
  
"We vow to produce abundant food"

Location
  
Rahuri, Maharashtra, India

Address
  
Ahmednagar, Rahuri, Maharashtra 413722

Motto
  
अन्नं बहु कुर्वीत तद् व्रतम् (Sanskrit, "We vow to produce abundant food")

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The Maharashtra Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri is a university established on March 29, 1968. It became functional in October 1969. Forty kilometers to the south is Ahmednagar city and 50 km to the north is Shirdi. Newasa, land of saint Dnyaneshwar is 33 km from Rahuri. Ahmednagar is a historical place and was a capital of the Nizam rulers. It is famous for co-operative sugar and dairy industries. The annual average maximum and minimum temperature ranges between 30 and 40 °C and 10 to 20 °C. respectively.

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Mahatma phule krishi vidyapeeth top 9 facts


Constituent Colleges

College Of Agriculture Pune, College of Agriculture Dhule, College of Agriculture Kolhapur, College of Agriculture Karad College of Agriculture Nandurbar, Post Graduate Institute MPKV Rahuri, Dr. A. S. College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Rahuri, College of Agriculture Muktainagar, Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar College of Agriculture,Halgaon.

Apart from this many colleges are affiliated to this university.

MPKV offers Post Graduate education at Central Campus, Rahuri and College of Agriculture, Pune, Kolhapur and Dhule; Ph.D. programme at Rahuri; M. Tech. (Agril. Engg.) at Rahuri with high quality faculty and modern laboratories.

Special infrastructure facilities for international students.

Faculty of Lower Agricultural Education offers Diploma courses in Agriculture through 9 constituent and 85 affiliated Agricultural Schools under MPKV.

State Level Biotechnology Center

State Level Biotechnology Center has been established at main campus of Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth,Rahuri. Centre started M. Sc. degree programme in the subject of Agricultural Biotechnology with the intake capacity of 8 students for M.Sc (Agril. Biotechnology).

Alumni

MPKV has an excellent alumni with numerous Agricultural Research Service Scientists and government officers working under State and Central Governments. Some meritorious officers in Indian Administrative Service like Tanaji Satre(I.A.S), Prabhakar Deshmukh(I.A.S), Chandrakant Dalvi(I.A.S), Umakant Dangat(I.A.S), Shivaji Daund(I.A.S), Vikas Deshmukh(I.A.S), V.J Bhosale(I.A.S), Rajaram Mane(I.A.S), A.R Shinde(I.A.S), Shekhar Gaikwad(I.A.S) are the pass-out's of MPKV. Apart from these many pass-outs from MPKV are working under State Services.

References

Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth Wikipedia


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