CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

The Central Agricultural University (CAU) was established under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) on January 26, 1993 by the Central Agricultural University Act, 1992 (No.40 of 1992) of parliament with its headquarters at Imphal, Manipur. The emblem of this university has a triangle placed in a hexagon representing the States of Northeast and is populated with a cattle, a pineapple, a lotus supported by an open book, flowing water with a fish, a flask and a test tube with a plant growing within crested with a mountain and rising sun and supported by its year of establishment. All these elements are representatives of the Northeast and the domains within the scope of the university. The book and the lotus represent knowledge, wisdom and purity. All these are ensconced by a border circle, which carries its name in Devanagari and English. This emblem is supported by a pair of ripened paddy stems on either side. At the bottom, on a banner its motto in Sanskrit ‘अन्नात्भवन्ति भूतानि’ meaning ‘Food is Life’ is written.