Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola

Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth (PDKV or PKV) is an agricultural university located at Akola in Maharashtra, India, in the Vidarbha region. It is responsible for agricultural education, research, and extension education, along with breeder and foundation seed programmes, and its jurisdiction covers all eleven districts of Vidarbha: Akola, Amravati, Bhandara, Buldhana, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Gondia, Nagpur, Washim, Wardha, and Yavatmal. The Central Campus is at Akola, with another major campus at Nagpur and a new campus at Gadchiroli. The university was started on 20 October 1969 as Panjabrao Krishi Vidyapeeth, named after Dr. Panjabrao (Bhausaheb) Deshmukh, and was renamed Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth from 15 November 1995. It has over 3425 hectares of cultivable land for research and seed multiplication, with contributions in cotton, sorghum, pulses, oilseeds, watershed and dryland management, and Mandarin orange cultivation. The university operates 20 research stations, 24 all India coordinated projects, and grants bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Engineering & Technology, admissions to which are made through MCAER, Pune. It also has a new College of Agriculture at Gadchiroli and five agriculture schools for lower education.