Tajik Agrarian University 'S. Shotemur' (TAU) (russian: Таджикский аграрный университет им. Ш. Шотемура; tg, Донишгоҳи аграрии Тоҷикистон ба номи Ш. Шотемур) is a university in

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

, in the capital of

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...

History

In 1931, the 'Central Asian Fruit-and-Vegetable Institute' was founded in the city of

Khujand Khujand ( tg, Хуҷанд, Khujand; Uzbek: Хўжанд, romanized: Хo'jand; fa, خجند‌, Khojand), sometimes spelled Khodjent and known as Leninabad (russian: Ленинабад, Leninabad; tg, Ленинобод, Leninobod; fa, لنی ...

(former Leninabad). In 1934 it was reorganized and renamed into the 'Tajik Agricultural Institute'. In 1992, the Institute was again reorganized into 'Tajik Agrarian University'. The Government of Tajikistan decided (#311 from October 31, 2009) to rename it as 'Tajik Agrarian University Shirinsho Shotemur'.

Academics

TAU has a current enrolment of 6500 students. It has more than 35,000 alumni. There are nine faculties at the university:

Agronomy Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...

Agribusiness Agribusiness is the industry, enterprises, and the field of study of value chains in agriculture and in the bio-economy, in which case it is also called bio-business or bio-enterprise. The primary goal of agribusiness is to maximize profit w ...

, Zoo-engineering,

Veterinary science Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

, Economics, Horticulture and Biotechnology of Agriculture, Mechanization of Agriculture and Hydromeliorative methods, educating experts in 31 specialities.

References

External links

Official website (english)
Universities in Tajikistan Education in Dushanbe {{Tajikistan-struct-stub