The Agricultural Industry has existed since about 10,000 BC. The Agriculture Industry is also one of the oldest industries in the world, where agriculture has existed since the days of our ancestors, especially the Indonesian people, whose majority of their income came from agriculture and marine products. In recent years, agricultural studies have become a rapidly and dynamically developing field, which includes important matters such as resource sustainability, plant genetic engineering, development of agricultural technology, organic farming methods and various environmental problems such as climate change affecting systems. existing farming patterns. Following are the faculties of agriculture who have superior faculty assessments in agriculture, both in terms of accreditation of existing majors,
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Medan Area
Faculty of Agriculture of UMA is one of the leading faculties in Medan in the field of agriculture. Since its establishment until the Academic Year 2013/2014 educational activities at the Faculty of Agriculture UMA carried out with the Semester Credit System (SKS). The length of education to complete studies at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Medan Area is 8 semesters or 4 years. The amount of semester credit load to complete the study is 145-146 credits. Responding to the Decree of the Director General of Higher Education Number: 163 / DIKTI / Kep / 2007 dated November 29, 2007, the Study Program was structured into only 2 (two) Study Programs, namely Agrotechnology and Agribusiness.
One thing that can be taken into account is why the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Medan Area is one of the leading faculties in Medan in agriculture because only the UMA agriculture faculty has one of the A accredited study programs, the only one outside of Java based on the Certificate of Higher Education Accreditation Board (BAN) -PT) Indonesia, namely Agribusiness with SK Number: 9 / SK / BAN-PT / Akred / S / I / 2018 which is valid until 03/01/23 and for the Agrotechnology study program has B accreditation with SK Number: 4818 / SK / BAN- PT / Akred / S / XII / 2017 which is valid until 12/19/2022. That is why UMA’s faculty of agriculture is one of the leading faculties in agriculture in Medan.
Academic Activities
In the provision of knowledge in agriculture, students of agriculture are equipped with knowledge not only with academic activities in classrooms and labs and experimental fields, but field studies to several companies as well as seed centers and other government agencies related to agriculture including:
Field Study to PTPN IV Kebun Adolina, Bah Butong, Kebun Sei Mengkei PTPN III, BBIH Kuta Gadung BBIH Johor Building, BBIH Tongkoh and many more throughout the academic period, the aim is to increase student knowledge in agriculture, so students are expected to be able to have more competence in the field of agricultural science and are ready to apply the knowledge gained. Besides the provision of knowledge for students and students of the faculty of agriculture is also obtained through practical activities in the laboratory that meet the standards and experimental land which has an area of approximately 2.1 Ha which is sufficient for students to practice nursery planting,