Navsari Agriculture University, Navsari

The iconic educational and farmers welfare Institute of South Gujarat, Navsari Agricultural University (NAU) with its headquarter in Navsari came into existence with the promulgation of Gujarat Agricultural University Act 2004 on May 1, 2004. NAU’s jurisdiction covers seven districts of South Gujarat viz., Surat, Navsari, Bharuch, Valsad, Narmada, Tapi and Dang. At present, there are seven Colleges imparting five bachelor’s, twenty seven Master’s and twenty one doctoral degree programmes. NAU has the following faculties: Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Engineering and Agricultural Biotechnology. Further, there are 25 research centres at 15 locations to carry out need based research on mandate crops viz., paddy, sugarcane, cotton, sorghum, small millets, mango, banana, sapota and vegetables. The NAU has extensive reach to the farmers and covers sprawling South Gujarat through its 5 Krishi Vigyan Kendras located at Navsari, Surat, Waghai, Vyara and Dediapada and Sardar Smruti Kendra, T & V and ATIC at Navsari to undertake dissemination of latest technologies to end users in seven districts of  South Gujarat.

All the eight constituent colleges of NAU, Navsari are accredited by “National Agricultural Education Accreditation Board” of ICAR, New Delhi up to March 31, 2026. As per the “Ranking of Agricultural Universities” conducted by ICAR, the NAU, Navsari was ranked XXII (2016), IX (2017), XIV (2018), XLII (2019) XXXI (2020) during the last five years. Moreover, consecutively for last three years NAU, Navsari was also bestowed with 4 star rating by Government of Gujarat under GSIRF ranking. The NAU, Navsari is a cosmopolitan campus and during the year 2021-22, had admitted a total of 770 students including 434 students to undergraduate degree programmes and 336 students to postgraduate degree programmes. University also admitted 257 students in four diploma courses offered by seven Polytechnics.

The NAU has released 105 high yielding good quality varieties of various crops including 18 varieties of cotton, 20 varieties of rice, 9 varieties of sugarcane, 8 varieties of sorghum, 8 varieties of nagli, 4 varieties of pigeon pea, 4 of adenium, 3 each varieties of turmeric, vari, Indian bean and moong, 2 varieties each of niger and mango ginger, 1 each variety of cowpea, sunnhemp, little gourd, pointed gourd, castor, brinjal, tomato, malabar neem, urd bean, greater yam, sesbania, elephant foot yam and okra. Moreover, the NAU endorsed, 1 each variety of pigeon pea-Vaishali, sorghum- Phule Revati, rice- NAUR-1 (Aerobic condition), sweet potato- Bhukanti and soybean-Phule Agrani. The University also developed 681 technologies including 282 in the field of Natural Resource Management, 201 in Horticulture and Agro-forestry, 97 in Plant Protection, 48 in Agricultural Engineering, 44 in Animal Science, 8 in Basic Sciences and one in Social Science for benefitting farming community. Under Mega Seed Project, NAU has produced 66617 q of breeder, foundation, truthful and certified seeds, 69090 q of sugarcane setts, 100.55 lakh saplings of various fruits and vegetables, 25.44 lakh tissue culture plantlets of sugarcane and banana. Furthermore, NAU has also produced 8.00 lakh litres of different Biofertilizers & Biopesticides, 54,000 kg trichoderma, 2.50 lakh fruit fly trap, etc over last 16 years. The fruit fly trap (Nauroji Stonehouse Fruit Fly Trap) is enormously cost effective and a benefit of 81,840/ha could be achieved by spending merely Rs. 350/ha as per the estimate of 2009, which has further increased in the recent context. The Bamboo Resource Centre at College of Forestry has bambusetum having 34 bamboo species, bamboo nursery, bamboo preservations setup, bamboo workshop, bamboo based agroforestry model, bamboo based handicrafts viz., Bamboo Gate, Bamboo Fencing, Bamboo Wall Paneling, Bamboo Gazebo Bamboo Furniture, etc.