The Relevance of Post Graduation Research in Agricultural Sciences in Selected Indian Universities

The study was conducted in selected farm universities in Karnataka state namely Raichur, Dharwad and Bangalore Agricultural Universities for the period 2015-16 and 2016-17 to know about the relevance of post graduate research in agricultural sciences. The preferred research areas focused in various subjects of agricultural sciences were categorized and studied the relevance on the major fields of specialization in these farm universities. The results show that among various post-graduation disciplines numerically highest research relevance was observed in agronomy and least relevance was observed in crop physiology. Hence, the study suggests that research areas should be focused on current regions of overall agriculture development and research relevance should be focused on present problems which can address the farming communities about the current pressing agricultural development problems.