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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Haryana state of India. The University is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. A leader in agricultural research in India CCSHAU contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. The University has the credit of receiving Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Award for the Best Institute in 1996, Best AICRP Maize Centre Award-2006-12, Krishi Karman Award-2014-2015 (Mahindra and Mahindra), Krishi Shiksha Samman-2015 and many more. Continuing with its trail of achievements CCSHAU has once again bagged the Best Institute Award i.e., 'Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institution Award 2016'. The University has 8,637 acres of land, around 7,219 acres at main campus and 1,418 acres at outstations. It has a well developed experimental farm of 994 hectares at main campus, Hisar along with ten experimental farms, one with each Regional Research Station covering an area of 568 hectares. Since 1970, there have been signi?cant advances in research, teaching and extension by creation of strong infrastructure at its main campus and outreach stations.
Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar has established "Deendayal Upadhyay Centre of Excellence for Organic Farming" which was inaugurated by Sh. Manohar Lal, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Haryana in the august presence of Sh. Subhash Barala, MLA, Tohana; Dr. Kamal Gupta, MLA, Hisar and Prof. K.P. Singh, Vice-Chancellor, CCSHAU, Hisar on 31 October, 2017. The centre has been setup with the objective to popularize organic farming in the state. The organic farm under "Deendayal Upadhyay Centre of Excellence for Organic Farming" spreads over 139 acres of land, where farmers will be trained in organic farming as incubatee and they will be extended scientific information on organic farming, marketing, storage and post harvest technology. This centre will be linked to university dairy where cow dung, cow urine and agriculture waste after converting into customize fertilizers through modern bio-compost and bio-energy units will be used on organic farm.
The organic products of this centre will be directly sold in the market of Delhi and NCR. This is the first center of its kind in the country where in due course the recommendations of organic farming will be prepared and given to the farmers who will be able to benefit from their implementation on their farm. In this centre, a custom hire centre will be run by the university students, who will also train the farmers about the use of advanced equipments and their commercialisation. The centre will be run on 'No Profit No Loss'.