Ph.D:Collection and evaluation of Landraces

The Nagland University was established by the Nagaland University Act, 1989 of the Parliament on 6th Sept. 1994. It is the only Central University in the State having three campuses, viz., Lumami Headquarters, Kohima and Medziphema. At present the University is functioning from its Kohima Campus as Interim Headquarters. The University is located in the tribal dominated State of Nagaland having borders with Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Myanmar (Burma on its long eastern stretch). Each Campus has its own administrative and academic unit to manage the day to day educational affairs.

The course of Genetics & Plant Breeding is responsible for the courses in (a) Agri Botany & Pant Breeding (b) Genetics and Plant Breeding (c) Elective courses in Plant Breeding (d) Bio-Technology (e) Crop physiology course (f) Environmental Science & Agro-ecology course to B.Sc(Ag) and the Teaching course to Genetics and Plant Breeding to M.Sc(Ag).
In Addition to teaching works, research programmes on local germplasm collection all Nagaland for evaluation and characterization.

Research:

a) Extensive data collection involving sample collection along with the interviews to farmers and forest dwellers for ITK information etc.
b) Systematic visits to different types of forest in different Agro-Ecozonal and tribal inhabitant areas for wild edible fruits, vegetables and medicinals & herbaria and photography.
c) Establishment of farm for evaluation selected germplasm,
such as Rich bean, Soyabean Rich etc.