Division of Agricultural Entomology has its existence since the inception of College of Agriculture, Raichur during 1984. Nearly 2000 Undergraduate students have completed different entomology courses between 1984 and 2020. So far 50 B.Sc. (Agri.) graduates have secured ICAR-JRF Fellowships in Entomology including first rank. PG programme with M.Sc. (Agri.) and Ph.D. in Agril.
The faculty is specialized in various cutting edge technologies with national and international reputation.
The students admitted for M.Sc. and Ph.D. programme are pursuing their research in cutting edge technologies.
Department is offering various UG courses at three agriculture colleges and PG and PhD courses at main campus.
Research in the field of Pest ecology, IPM, Bio control, Climate change, Pesticide residue, IT in Pest management are being conducted in collaboration with ICAR Institutes.
The technologies developed by the entomologists are being adopted at state and national level for the benefit of farming community.
Faculty and PG students of the department have bagged various awards and recognitions in the field of academics, research and extension.
Electronic Solutions against Agricultural Pests (eSAP), is an ICT solution in the field of Plant protection. It is a dedicated system that effectively integrates Mobile communications, Tablet-based technologies and Cloud solutions to bring different players of the agricultural ecosystem including farmers, agricultural universities and policy makers to interact on a single platform in real time enabling two-way dissemination of real time information strengthening the agricultural sector of a nation.
