ODISHA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

ODISHA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

In 1961, the Legislature of the State of Orissa enacted the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology Act, 20 of 1961 with the object of establishing and incorporating a University of Agriculture and Technology. The university was inaugurated by Prof. John K. Galbraith on August 24, 1962 and began its functioning from February 1, 1963, when the Utkal Krushi Mahavidyalaya and the Orissa College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry with their staff were transferred to the university. The emblem of the university has motifs of a bullock with a plough on flowing water supported by a tractor and a power tiller placed on a green circle. The green circle is ensconced by a border, on which the name of the university and its year of establishment are inscribed. The circular emblem is supported by a pair of wheat spikes and crested by the Sun Temple of Konark. Below the seal, on a banner the name is written in Odia. The cattle, plough, flowing water, wheat spikes, the tractor and the tiller represent agriculture and agricultural technology; the wheat spikes denote fertility, abundance, growth, renewal and resurrection and the Temple of Konark denotes the State of Odisha.