About Us Assam Agricultural University is the first institution of its kind in the whole of North-Eastern Region of India The main goal of this institution is to produce globally competitive human resources in farm sectorand to carry out research in both conventional and frontier areas for production optimization as well as to disseminate the generated technologies as public good for benefitting the food growers produces and traders involved in the sector while emphasizing on sustainability equity and overall food security at household level The embryo of the agricultural research in the state of Assam was formed as early as with the establishment of the Upper Shillong Experimental Farm now in Meghalaya just after about a decade of creation of the agricultural department in However the seeds of agricultural research in today rsquo s Assam were sown in the dawn of the twentieth century with the establishment of two Rice Experimental Stations one Read More