Department of Agronomy, NCYU

Mission and Goals

The Department of Agronomy is one of the oldest departments in the College of Agriculture, National Chiayi University (NCYU). Based on the national food strategy and the direction of the NCYU's development, our mission is to educate students possess the abilities of agricultural techniques innovation and application, focusing on the field including new cultivars breeding, crop production improvement, and useful medicine plants development. As it went to 21^st century, agricultural development became more important to obtain and invent higher quality crop production, to maintain and monitor wonderful ecological environment quality, and to develop and sustain the agro-resources. Agronomy does not degenerate as time goes by and moreover plays a key role for food production systems, organic agro-ecosystem management, and linkages between agricultural production and bio-environmental protection. Our department has the missions to carry forward the cause and forge ahead into the future. Such as now, we endeavor to provide higher quality of education resources and research equipments for training our students to have expertise in multi-purpose crop development (i.e. food, medicine, energy, and novel crops). And, in order to approach to sustainable development of agriculture and the ecological conservation of safe agriculture and the regional revitalization, the intellgent agriculture, the marketing brand extension, certification system, and safe and healthy crop production are promoted with the considerations of organic agricultural strategy and natural resource protection in our department.

Faculty and Courses Offered

Currently, we have 11 full-time teachers, including 3 full professor, 3 associate professors, 4 assistant professors, and 1 instructors. All 11 of the full-time teachers were awarded the Ph.D. degree. The undergraduate students are required to complete 128 credits and master student program is required to complete 30 credits. The core courses offered are Crop science, Plant physiology, Genetics, Crop breeding, Biostatistics, Soil science and Biochemistry. For the sake of offering thematic and extension courses for both undergraduate and graduate student, our teaching and research activities are introduced into the multidisciplinary issues and integral applications of modern agriculture in Taiwan.

Research Areas and Developments

Our research fields are emphasized on organic farming, plant tissue culture, molecular breeding to assist new cultivars selection, healthy and energy crops, crop physiology and biotechnology, soil conservation by phytoremediation. Our student will focus their professional developments on the real works of agricultural practice and management, which are including the R&D of agricultural technologies, the intelligent agriculture, the ecological conservation, the diagnostics of crop cultivation, the services of agronomic practices, and the marketing of agricultural products.

Careers Opportunities

At present, the career opportunities of our students are plenty. Students may take the advanced examination to get the technical license as agronomy. If qualified by the national examination, students graduated from our department can gain employments in government agencies. Graduates can also work in private companies and develop their own career. Some students may continue on their education for advanced degrees in graduate institutes of agronomy, horticulture, biotechnology, bio-statistics, plant protection, and agricultural extension and other academic institutes.

E-mail: agri@mail.ncyu.edu.tw

Web: http://ncyuweb.ncyu.edu.tw/agri_eng/