Introduction

Faculty of Agriculture

Faculty of Agriculture is one of three founding faculties that made up the formation of Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (now Universiti Putra Malaysia) in 1971. Beginning with seven departments under this faculty, most of these departments were later developed to become several other faculties.

At the end of 1998, Faculty of Agriculture has 3 academic departments which are Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Department of Plant Protection and Department of Soil Science.

Beginning from 1st January 1999, the restructuring process at Universiti Putra Malaysia also involved Faculty of Agriculture. The restructuring is based on the concept of uniting or integration of the main elements in the agricultural systems comprising of crop, animal, soil, technology and management. On this basis, the Faculty of Agriculture now have 6 departments - Crop Science, Animal Science, Plant Protection, Land Management, Agribusiness and Information System, and Agriculture Technology.

As a foremost agriculture faculty in this country, Faculty of Agriculture has a major role to find solutions to the current agriculture problems faced by the nations, and to enhance the prospects of development of the agriculture industry in the long term especially in the training programs of human resources for producing trained individuals comprising of graduates who are visionary and competitive in the industrial arena.

Using the country's education system as the base, Faculty of Agriculture will strive to produce trained agriculture expertise characterized by their entrepreneurship and capability to provide consultations at any place, besides contributing to new and high agriculture technology resulting from research and commercialization programs. The Faculty of Agriculture currently offers programs in Bachelor of Agricultural Science, Bachelor of Horticultural Science, and Bachelor of Science (Agribusiness), Bachelor of Agriculture (Aquaculture) and Bachelor of Agriculture (Animal Science). Beside those, programs at postgraduate levels offered are Master in Agriculture Science, Master in Science, Master in Land Resource Management, Master in Plantation Management, Master in Sustainable Land Management and PhD.

Faculty Mission

• To become the center of excellence in education, research and technology in tropical agriculture.
• To increase capability of UPM to become center of learning and generation of knowledge for agriculture technology.

Faculty Objectives

To become a center of excellence in bio resource and technology through:

• producing quality graduates who are knowledgeable, creative and innovative with entrepreneurship inclination

• enhancing research activities toward using quality technology, product development, process and system in bio industry

• being excellence in consultancy services and bio industry

• being an information reference center in bio industry and able to play active role in legislation of National Agricultural Policy

The Quality Objective of Agriculture Faculty

• Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching
  To Produce agriculture graduates that are relevant, knowledgeable, skillful and competitive
• Research
  To establish the Faculty of Agriculture as the premier tropical agricultural research center in the region

Quality Policy
The Faculty of Agriculture at UPM strives to achieve excellence in teaching and research through a quality management system that is constantly improved upon to satisfy the needs of our clients in accordance with MS ISO 9001:2008.

The staff of the Agriculture Faculty will at all times conduct themselves with full responsibility so as to accomplish the declared quality objectives of the Faculty with these objectives periodically reviewed in accordance with the Mission, Objective and Quality Policy of the Faculty.