Overview

Agriculture forms the backbone of Telangana state’s economy, at Warangal 50% of households engaged in farming and allied sectors. Blessed with a semi-arid subtropical climate and diverse soils, the region supports crops like Paddy, Cotton, Maize, Red gram, Chilli, Turmeric, and other Horticultural crops. To strengthen agricultural education and innovation, the School of Agriculture was established at SR University in 2020–21, offering a four-year B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture programme.

Spread across 24.09 ha at Hasanparthy, the campus features rainwater harvesting and wastewater treatment systems supporting field experiments and demonstration plots. Well-qualified faculty members lead teaching, research, and extension activities, supported by modern classrooms, laboratories, ICT facilities, and the area of 18.58 ha instructional farm equipped with a weather observatory, crop cafeteria, polyhouse, Shade net, hydroponics, vermicomposting, azolla, apiary, micro- irrigation, organic production units and orchard. Students gain real-world exposure through field and industry visits, and research projects, which integrates classroom learning with on-field problem-solving and farmer engagement. Graduates of SRU’s Agriculture program acquire comprehensive technical knowledge in crop production, integrated nutrient, irrigation, weed, and pest management. The program also emphasizes climate-resilient agriculture, agribusiness management, entrepreneurship development, and the application of modern smart agricultural technologies.

The School of Agriculture remains committed to fostering innovation, sustainability, and community development through quality education, applied research, and farmer-oriented outreach.

Dr. G. Bhupal Raj, Dean, School of Agriculture, has more than three decades of leadership experience in teaching, research and extension. He is retired as Director in Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad. Before joining as Dean, School of Agriculture, SR University, he worked as Director of Extension and PG Studies, M.S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture – Centurion University, Odisha and Dean of KBR College of Agriculture and Horticulture (Affiliated to ANGRAU), Andhra Pradesh. He has published 100+ research articles in reputed journals. He obtained twelve awards including two gold medals for significant contributions and guided four Ph.D. and ten M.Sc. (Ag) Scholars. He had international exposure, visiting US, UK, Thailand and China.

Students of the program will have an opportunity to work as innovative Scholars in Collaborative for Social Innovations (CSI) to develop new solutions for sustainable agricultural production. A student can also explore other interdisciplinary research centers @ SRU