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Mandi prices and key benchmarks for crop value
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Smarter price insights for a stronger tomorrow.Mandi prices and key benchmarks for crop value
Live rates for livestock and poultry
Key input and commodity prices for farming
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Career
Build a career in agriculture.
Find the jobs that are open now, the exams worth sitting, the courses that lead somewhere, and the reading behind all of it.
A clearer path into agricultural work.Paid work, internships and volunteer roles
Dates, syllabus and study material
Courses you can join and what they teach
Farm finance
Find the money behind the season.
Check which government schemes you qualify for, what you can borrow and at what instalment, and the cover available for your crop and your animals.
Know what you can claim before you spend.Government schemes and your eligibility
What you can borrow and what it costs
Cover for your crop and your animals
Money for agriculture students
Help
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A real person reads every report.Who runs AgriFolk and how to reach us
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Where India learns to grow
Universities, ICAR research institutes, national bureaux, commodity boards, training centres and state bodies. See who runs what, find them on the map, and open any one to learn what it does and how you get in.
What do you love? pick one ↓
Each picture filters the directory below to the places that teach or research it.
Who runs what the family tree
Every institute sits under a ministry or a state. Click a branch to open it. The last box lists the institutes and lets you jump to them.
Who is in charge
Find them on the map
Darker green means more institutes. Click a state to see everything inside it.
Uttar Pradesh
41 national-level institutes · 89 KVKs
State's own bodies
- Agriculture dept
- Department of Agriculture, Uttar Pradesh ↗
- Animal husbandry
- Department of Animal Husbandry, Uttar Pradesh ↗
- Seeds corporation
- Uttar Pradesh Beej Vikas Nigam (UP Seeds Development Corporation)
- Marketing board
- Rajya Krishi Utpadan Mandi Parishad, Uttar Pradesh (State Agricultural Produce Market Council) ↗
- Seed certification
- Uttar Pradesh State Seed Certification Agency
- Extension training (SAMETI)
- SIMA / SAMETI Uttar Pradesh, Rehman Khera, Lucknow
- Agro industries
- Uttar Pradesh State Agro Industrial Corporation Ltd
- Warehousing
- Uttar Pradesh State Warehousing Corporation
The directory
Filter by family, narrow by type or state, or just search. Open any card for its full story.
Your route through these institutes school to scientist
Which kind of institute you meet at each stage. Entrance names are the national ones; each state adds its own.
- 110+2
Science with Biology or Maths
KVK visitsSchool science fairs - 2B.Sc / B.V.Sc / B.F.Sc
4 years (vet: 5½). CUET (UG), NEET or a state entrance
SAUsCAUsVet & fisheries univs - 3M.Sc / M.Tech
ICAR AIEEA (PG); GATE for food and engineering
IARINDRIIVRICIFESAUs - 4PhD
ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF, CSIR/UGC NET
ICAR deemed univsCSIR & DBT labs - 5Career
Scientist (ASRB ARS), officer, banker, forester
ICAR institutesNABARDBoardsFCI
How it all grew
Scroll sideways. A few dates that shaped farm education in India.
Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory opens in Pune. It grows into today's IVRI.
Agricultural Research Institute starts at Pusa, Bihar. It moves to Delhi in 1936 and becomes IARI.
Imperial Institute of Animal Husbandry & Dairying starts in Bangalore. Today it is NDRI, Karnal.
The Imperial Council of Agricultural Research is formed. It becomes ICAR.
India's first state agricultural university opens at Pantnagar (now GBPUAT).
CIFE, Mumbai, begins training fisheries scientists.
ICRISAT is set up at Patancheru, Hyderabad.
The Department of Agricultural Research & Education (DARE) is created.
The first Krishi Vigyan Kendra opens in Puducherry.
Central Agricultural University, Imphal, starts serving the North East.
Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University is created for Bundelkhand.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, gets central status.
Before you pay a fee
A directory is a starting point, not a guarantee.
- Check that the course itself is accredited by ICAR, not only the university. Accreditation periods end and are renewed.
- Each state agricultural university lists its own constituent and affiliated colleges on its website.
- Your district Krishi Vigyan Kendra knows which courses and trainings are actually running near you.
- Cards stamped “to verify” have not yet been matched to the body's official page.
Sources: ICAR institute and university lists (icar.gov.in, icar.org.in), ICAR accreditation list of 13 Aug 2025, igod.gov.in, ministry websites, MANAGE's SAMETI list and each body's official site. KVK count: Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question 2426, 21 March 2025. Round seals stand in for logos.