Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

The Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences focuses on educating, training and empowering students with practical knowledge and practical long life skills, and value addition to crop and animal production to become transformative professionals and entrepreneurs in the Sector of Agriculture.

Faculty Overview

At the heart of Karamoja Peace and Technology University is the Faculty of Agriculture. The Faculty of Agriculture focuses on educating, training and empowering students with practical knowledge and practical long life skills, and value addition to crop and animal production to become transformative professionals and entrepreneurs in the Sector of Agriculture.

Teaching Agriculture opens the learners to understand the following: what crops are and what animals are; how crops grow and how animals grow, how crops live and how animals live and how crops die and how animals die.

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To support teaching and research, the University is to set up first class modern demonstration farms at the thirteen (13) KAPATU Spectra Campuses at all the Catholic Parishes in the four (04) Districts of Kotido, Karenga, Kaabong and Abim that constitute Kotido Catholic Diocese. These will provide hands on training to the students and the community members.

The faculty will further set up a large scale contemporary farm for bee hives for natural honey; a large scale forest of medicinal plants especially olive trees and moringa trees, cinchona, aloe vera etc. to be utilized in the Faculty of Health Sciences under the School of Pharmacy for Scientific Research and the manufacture of Contemporary Human and Veterinary Medicines at KAPATU.  

To enhance mechanization of agriculture and food security in Karamoja Sub Region, Ateker Region and the Great Lakes Region; KAPATU will pump water from Lake Opeta, a distance of one hundred and fifty-three Kilometers (153) away from Kotido and take it to the highest point in Kotido and from there extend it by gravity to each of the thirteen (13) KAPATU Spectra Campuses in Kotido Catholic Diocese.

The faculty, therefore, focuses on preparing students to be hands on, knowledgeable, competent, and competitive professionals in conservation and environmental protection; agriculture, agribusiness and veterinary fields.

The faculty will start with one Department with six (6) Programmes as detailed below.  In addition, the Faculty of Agriculture will have 13 Demonstration University Farms at the thirteen (13) KAPATU Spectra Campuses.

Dr. Paul Lochap

Dean Faculty of Agriculture
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Dr. Anthony Mwije Ph.D.

Deputy Dean Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
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Academic Departments

  1. The Department of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

Academic Programs

To support the faculty of agriculture and extension services, the university will implement a major project to pull water 180 km from Lake Opeta to Kotido District. The water project should address the challenge of water shortage in the region once for all. This will enhance animal and crop production thus turning Karamoja into a food basket. It will also conserve the environment and mitigate the challenges of climate change.

Degrees:
  1. Bachelor of Agriculture in Animal Production.
  2. Bachelor of Agriculture in Crop Production.
Diplomas:
  1. Diploma in Animal Production and Management.
  2. Diploma in Crop Production and Management.
  3. Diploma in Human Nutrition and Dietetics.
  4. Diploma in Animal Welfare and Health Management.

Department Contact Info

Christ the King Catholic Parish,

Losilang, Kotido District, Uganda, East Africa.

+256-414-343-614
admin@kapatu.ac.ug

Mon – Fri 9:00A.M. – 5:00P.M.

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