Historical background

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INSTITUTE

The growing need of human resources man power in variety of schemes of agricultural significance of the State Government had been realized in late 50’s. In order to overcome the shortage of agricultural graduates, the subcommittee on agriculture and allied personnel recommended an increase in admissions to the existing Agricultural Colleges at Bapatla and Hyderabad. The state manpower committee appointed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh also felt the need for more trained personnel in agriculture, emphasized to start a new college and recommended the constitution of a committee to decide upon the location of the third Agricultural College in Sri Venkateswara University area as the other two colleges at Bapatla and Hyderabad were located in Andhra and Osmania University areas, respectively.

A committee consisting of Sri D. V. Reddy, Director of Agriculture,  Sri C. Anna Rao, Executive Officer, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams and the Chief Engineer (Buildings) was entrusted with the task of choosing a site in the Sri Venkateswara University area for locating the College. The Scheme for the establishment of the College was prepared by then the Principal of the Agricultural College, Bapatla, incorporating the experiences gained in the establishment of that College fifteen years earlier.

Initially the Principal, Agricultural College, Bapatla was kept in additional charge of the post of Principal of the S V Agricultural College, Tirupati. Sri M. V. Gopalakrishna Sarma was appointed as Gazetted Assistant to the Principal.

ESTABLISHMENT

Sri Mekapati Goutham Reddy Agricultural College, Udayagiri was established on 28 th November, 2022 in a sprawling campus of 106.77 acres within calm and salubrious atmosphere in the foot hills of Udayagiri hills which boasts of great natural beauty with hill side having lush vegetation and beautiful waterfalls.

The College was started with a mission to create potential professional manpower to meet the changing demands of agricultural sector and with goal to train human resources needed for agricultural sector for the development of the state of Andhra Pradesh. The College is established at Udayagiri with state-of-the-art infrastructure for fostering education in Agricultural Sciences along with the necessary facilities for the professional development of students pursuing Agriculture profession as their career. The college started functioning from the academic year 2022-23.