The department offers various undergraduate and postgraduate courses of vegetable science. The M.Sc. and Ph.D. students of the department usually study minor in Genetics and Plant Breeding, Entomology and Seed science & Technology in addition to Agricultural Statistics and Economics as supporting ones. The department has adopted course curricula recommended by 5th ICAR Deans’ Committee at UG level from 2016-17 academic session, while the course curricula for postgraduate degree are as per the recommendations of National Core Group. About 8-10 students in M. Sc. programme and 4-6 students in Ph.D. programme are being admitted through Combined Agriculture and Technology Entrance Tests (CATET) every year including ICAR quota (NTS / JRF/ SRF) and foreign students nomination.
| Course No. | Course title | Credit hours |
|---|---|---|
| Under Graduate Courses – B. Sc. (Hons.) Horticulture | ||
| VSC-221 | Spices and condiments | 3 |
| VSC-222 | Precision farming and protected cultivation | 3 |
| VSC-311 | Breeding of vegetable, tuber and spices | 3 |
| VSC-312 | Potato and tuber crops | 2 |
| VSC-321 | Seed production of vegetable, tuber & spices | 3 |
| HEL-422 | Protected cultivation of high value horticultural crops | 10(0+10) |
| HOR-211 | Production technology of vegetable and spices | 2 |
| ELP-427 | Organic crop production technology | 10(0+10) |
| M.Sc. Horticulture, Vegetable Science | ||
| Major | ||
| VGS 501 | Production technology of cool season vegetable crops | 3(2+1) |
| VGS 503 | Breeding of Vegetables | 3(2+1) |
| VGS 512 | Experimental design | 3(2+1) |
| VGS-502 | Production Tech. of warm Season Vegetable Crops | 3(2+1) |
| VGS-504 | Growth and Development of Vegetable Crops | 3(2+1) |
| VGS-505 | Seed Production Tech. of Vegetable Crops | 3(2+1) |
| VGS-507 | Production Tech. of Under Exploited Vegetable Crops | 2(1+1) |
| VGS – 508 | Organic Vegetable Production Technology | 2(1+1) |
| VGS-509 | Fundamentals of Processing of Vegetables | 2(1+1) |
| VGS-506 | Breeding of Vegetables | 3(2+1) |
| VGS-591 | Master seminar | 1(1+0) |
| VGS-599 | Master research | 20 |
| Minor | ||
| GPB-503 | Principals of plant breeding | 3(2+1) |
| SST-507 | Seed quality testing | 3(2+1) |
| ENT-510 | Principal of pest management Vegetable Crops | 2(1+1) |
| Total credit hours | 56 | |
| Ph.D. Vegetable Science | ||
| Major | ||
| VGS-601 | Advances in Vegetable Production | 3(2+1) |
| VGS-602 | Advances in breeding of Vegetable | 3(2+1) |
| VGS-603 | Protected Cultivation of Vegetable Crops | 2(1+1) |
| VGS-604 | Biotechnology of vegetable crops | 3(2+1) |
| VGS-605 | Seed Production Tech. of Vegetable Crops | 3(2+1) |
| VGS-606 | Production Technology of Under-exploited Veg. Crops | 2(1+1) |
| VGS-691 | Seminar | 1 |
| VGS-699 | Ph.D. Research work | 45 |
| Minor and supporting | ||
| ENT-607 | Advances in biological control | 2(1+1) |
| ENT-609 | Plant nematode relationship | 2(1+1) |
| GPB-603 | Hetrosis Breeding | 3(2+1) |
| AES-605 | Agriculture statistics | 3(2+1) |
| GPB-606 | Plant genetic resource | 2(1+1) |
| AES-602 | Agriculture production economics | 3(2+1) |
| Total credit hours | 77 | |