Department of Agricultural Economics
The department started functioning in 1960 with only under-graduate courses. The Master’s degree programme was started in 1963 and the Ph.D. degree programme in 1970. A new Master’s degree programme was opened in Rural Banking in 1976. This rural banking programme was discontinued in 1998-99 as the expansion phase of rural banking was over. The department now engages itself in the three core activities of teaching, research and extension which constitute the integrated system of education of the university.
Thrust research areas:
In the past 47 years of its existence, the department has built up expertise in almost all major fields of agricultural economics. Presently, the department has identified the following research thrust areas for agricultural economics research.
Department of Agricultural Economics
GB Pant University Of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar
Pantnagar - 263145
District - Udham Singh Nagar,
Uttarakhand
India
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