Sri Karan Narendra College of Agriculture


Shri Karan Narendra College of Agriculture, also SKN College of Agriculture, is a college located in Jobner, Rajasthan, India. It is the first institute for agriculture education to be established in Rajasthan. It is a constituent college of Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University.

History

Late Rawal Karan Singh of Jobner was inspired by Swami Dayanand Saraswati and established Anglo-Vedic High School in the year 1893. His son Rawal Narendra Singh upgraded the school to Shri Karan Narendra College of Agriculture in the year of Indian independence, July 1947. At the time of creation this was the only institute devoted to agricultural education in the state of Rajasthan in India. At present it has 15 departments and offer B.Sc. Hons, M.Sc. in 9 and Ph.D in 7 subjects. The faculty is 100 strong and the non-teaching faculty is 400 strong. The student enrollment is about 400.

Admission Procedure

Degrees Offered : B.Sc. Hons, M.Sc., Ph.D
B.Sc. Hons
Admission to B.Sc Hons Part-I is done through Joint Entrance Test conducted either by the Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner or Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur. The minimum eligibility for a candidate to appear in the JET is that the candidate must have passed 12th of the 10+2 scheme of examination with Agriculture/Science groups.

Teaching

The college imparts training in basic at UG level as well as scientific skills, by PG level with a view to prepare a student career directly and indirectly concerned with the uplifment of agricultural community.
Departments
Name of DepartmentsName of DepartmentsName of Departments
Department of AgronomyDepartment of Agricultural Chemistry & Soil ScienceDepartment of Plant Breeding & Genetics
Department of Plant PathologyDepartment of Agricultural Zoology & EntomologyDepartment of Horticulture
Department of Extension EducationDepartment of Agricultural EconomicsDepartment of Plant Physiology
Department of Animal ProductionDepartment of BiochemistryDepartment of Nematology
Department of Dairy ScienceDepartment of Agricultural Engineering & PhysicsDepartment of Statistics

The First Batch

The S. K. N College's very first batch, that had enrolled in this first agriculture college of state in the July, 1947 and they became the part of remembrance in the history of the college, always were as;