Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture (PAJANCOA) is an agricultural college established on 2 October 1987 at the village Serumavilangai in Karaikal district of the Union Territory of Puducherry, India. It is an autonomous educational institution that comes under the control and supervision of the government of Puducherry and is affiliated to Pondicherry University, Puducherry. Previously it was affiliated to Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore. The institute celebrated its Silver Jubilee Year in 2012. It is the only agriculture institute in the U.T. of Puducherry having its main campus at Karaikal offering undergraduate and post graduate education.
Research institute
In 1997, PAJANCOA was upgraded as research institute. Since then, it has been called Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute (PAJANCOA & RI).
In 1999, the post graduation program was started in Agricultural Botany,Soil science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Economics and Horticulture with 5 students per discipline per year. In the subsequent year the Department of Agricultural Entomology & Nematology and Agronomy had started offering PG programme. It has 225 acres with six ponds in which a mini botanical garden and an orchard, wet land and garden land are available as cultivable area for research, seed production and cultivation .
Achievement
It has released a rice variety named KKLR 1 — an alternative to CR 1009 and highly suitable for the region.
This institute is implementing the Precision farming project on a demonstrative mode in the farmers field of Karaikal from the year 2008.
Other facilities
- It has a 1(P) Naval Unit in-charge of S.Lt. Dr. P. Pandiyan
- The alumni association is run by the pioneer batch student cum Assistant Professor Dr. L. Aruna.
- There are well furnished hostels for boys and girls on the campus.