The department has well established laboratory equipped with autoclaves, microscopes, chromatography chamber, distillation water plant, electronic single pan balance, hand refractometer, incubator, oven, laminar flow bench, micro Kjeldahl, mechanical shaker, vaccum evaporator, deep freeze, seed germinator, cooling centrifuge and spectrophotometer etc. The department also has computer facilities with Internet connectivity and 1.5 acres land for conducting experiments.

Job Opportunities

Those student who completed their Master or Doctorate degree in department of horticulture have wide opportunities of job in public sectors, private sectors and self-employment such as Scientific/ technical personnel in research institutions/ labs, Administrative officer in state and center government, Faculty in colleges and universities, Subject matter specialist (SMS) in krishi vigyan kendra (KVKs), Agriculture officers in banks, Breeder in seed companies, Food inspector in department of food safety, Consultant and designer in landscaping companies etc.

Placement

 A number of our students joined in different colleges, KVKs and universities as a faculty member.

 Various students has been selected in different banks as field officer.

 Many students gets job in different development authority such as DDA as Horticulture officer.

 Some students joined DRDO as scientist.

 A large number of students selected in state agriculture department as Horticulture Officer and Technical Assistant.

 Various students appointed in different seed companies like Bejo Sheetal Seed Pvt. Ltd.

 Many students started their own business in area of floriculture and landscaping.

DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE

CHAUDHARY CHARAN SINGH UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, MEERUT

Time Table of M.Sc. (Ag.) Horticulture 2022 (Effective from March 2022)

Note: Campus Gardening work from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Monday to Saturday) also performed by the Department of Horticulture.

JK- Jitendra Kumar (Professor)

PD- Pavitra Dev (Assistant Professor)

MJ- Mohd. Javed (Guest Faculty)

KC- Krishan Chaudhary (Guest Faculty)

Academic Achievements:

• Total number of research papers published: more than 110
• Total number of Ph.D. awarded: 45
• Total number of M.Phil. awarded: more than 310
• Total number of awards: 25
• Conference/Symposium (national/international) organized: 4

Special achievements:

• Develop and maintain ecofriendly and lush green area in campus:

The horticultural activities for landscaping and beautification of CCS University was started with constitution of department of Horticulture in 1970. Towards the ecological diversification and sustainable land use practice, a total of more than 15000 plant saplings of different horticultural species have been planted in various sites in last 5 decades through routine and special plantation drives organized by the Horticulture Department of CCS University, on various national and international events/occasions with active participation from university communities and guests. During last 10 years, landscaping and gardening works in most of the prime locations of the University campus like front side of Entrance gate, different Administrative and Academic buildings& Departments, Central Evaluation Building, SCRIET, Play Grounds, Road Side Boundaries of the University, Guest House, Central Library, Auditorium, Vice-Chancellor’s residence etc. and other amenity centers have been completed. The roads and paths are to be formally planted with medium to tall flowering-ornamental plants.

• QR coding and Geo-tagging of major horticultural species:

Recently, the department of horticulture demarked most of the plant species existing in the campus by GI tags and QR code.Geo-tagging, as the name suggests, tags the location of the plant and the user also gets a chance to upload pictures. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, but can also include altitude, bearing, distance, accuracy data, names of places, even a time stamp. The main objective of geo-tagging is to check falsification of plantation claims. Similarly, QR codes are easy to scan and get the detailed information about the concerned plant with in a short time.