Type | College |
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Location | Vengthar Rd, Thenzawl , , 796186 , India 23°18′09″N 92°45′28″E / 23.302454°N 92.7576414°E |
Campus | Rural |
The College of Horticulture Thenzawl is one of the constituent colleges of the Central Agricultural University.[1] It is in Thenzawl in the state of Mizoram.
Sharad Pawar, during his visit in 2011 had promised to set up a horticulture college in Mizoram.[2] The site was approved in July 2015.[3] The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Radha Mohan Singh laid foundation stone of the College of Horticulture in 2016.[4]
The college is located in Thenzawl, 91 km from Aizawl, the capital city of Mizoram, The campus is spread over 120.38 acres (0.4872 km2) of land.[5] It has students from the North Eastern Hill States including Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur.