US-based varsity to join hands with PJTSAU

Hyderabad: The US-based University of Florida evinced interest to join hands with Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) to start online certificate courses,  joint degree programmes, online certificate courses in Agriculture and GIS,  Agroecology, organic farming and the like.

The proposals have come up during a visit by K Ramesh Reddy, Graduate Research Professor, Soil and Water Sciences Department of the University of Florida to the PJTSAU. 
According to a university press release, the visiting academician met with PJTSAU Vice-Chancellor Dr V Praveen Rao, Registrar Dr S Sudheer Kumar and other university officers and held discussions to enter a memorandum of understanding with PJTSAU. 

This was to extend support in starting of several online and offline certificate courses in agriculture. Ramesh Reddy said the University of Florida has already started several certificate courses in Agroecology, GIS and Agricultural communication management in the form of e-courses. 

Responding to the same, the Vice-Chancellor suggested to Ramesh Reddy to offer training on internationally accepted protocols in organic farming for selected faculty of PJTSAU by the University of Florida. He also, expressed the university’s interest to start joint degree programmes in agriculture. 

They discussed on students and faculty exchange between both the universities and initiate the joint research programmes, etc.Earlier, Deans and Directors of various wings of PJTSAU had explained about Teaching, Research and Extension activities at the university.