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GENESIS &
ESTABLISHMENT OF BANGLADESH
AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) was established
as the nation’s only university of its kind in 1961 on the basis of
recommendations made by the Commission of National Education and the Food and
Agriculture Commission in 1959. The scheme for the establishment of BAU was
finalized on 8 June 1961 and its ordinance was promulgated on 18 August 1961.
With the appointment of its first Vice-Chancellor, the university formally
came into existence on 2 September 1961 and started functioning with the College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary
Science at Mymensingh as its nucleus. The main task of the university is to
tone up the quality and standard of higher agricultural education and to
produce first rate agriculturists, agricultural scientists and technologists
for shouldering the responsibilities of agricultural development of the
country. To achieve the objectives over 90 percent of the recurring budget
and the entire development fund come from the government through University
Grants Commission (UGC). The annual recurring and development budgets are
over Tk 500 millions and Tk 50 millions, respectively.
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LOCATION
The University campus with an area of 485 ha is located in
scenic  rural surrounding on the western
bank of the old Brahmaputra river, 3 km south of district town of Mymensingh and 120 km north of Dhaka, the capital city
of Bangladesh.
The campus is made up of series of academic, administrative and residential
buildings and number of experimental farms, gardens and other related
facilities. Besides two national research institutes, namely, Bangladesh
Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) and Bangladesh Fisheries Research
Institute (BFRI) are housed in this campus.
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