Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004), dated April 29, 2004. Carved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets, namely education, research, and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing, and Home Science. At present, there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers, and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat, namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur.
VISION AND MISSION
- Agriculturally Prosperous Gujarat and India
- Search for new frontiers of Agricultural Sciences
- Undertake basic research to breakthrough newer areas of knowledge.
- Development of excellent human resources and innovative technological services to farming community
LIBRARY
Looking to the striking advances made by the Information Technology Center at Anand campus in the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University for the development of Agricultural Education as per the SAU model under ARIS and ISD, ICAR had taken Dr. M.D. Patel Library to be an integral part of its 18-Regional Library Consortium project and selected Dr. M.D. Patel Library as the Regional Library in the western zone. The launching of the National Agriculture Technology Project by ICAR, New Delhi, on Library Improvement and Networking (LIS O&M) drastically altered not only the fiscal statistics but also the Library's status as well, as the Library became an inextricable part of a nation-wide consortium, towards digitization, automation and establishment of modern Cyberary with 20 mbps Internet and 36 work-stations, thereby obtaining the esteemed position of Regional e-Library.
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