Hawassa College of Agriculture

Awassa College of Agriculture was established in July 1976 to offer a 2-year Diploma course with specialization in Plant Science, Animal Science, Agricultural Engineering and Home Economics with the objective of training middle level technicians. In the 1990-91 academic years the college launched a four-year Program in Plant Production and Dry Land Farming, Animal Production and Range Land Management and a five-year program in Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization. The staff of the college engaged in research and offered consultancy services. Awassa College of Agriculture is part of the Hawassa University (or HU). The university was established at Hawassa in April 2000. Since 1976 the colleges of HU had been operational starting with the College of Agriculture. The university was formed by merging three colleges in southern Ethiopia: Awassa College of Agriculture, Wondogenet College of Forestry and Dilla College of Teacher Education and Health Sciences.

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