The Universities, without any doubt, are the principal centers for education and learning as well as source of knowledge, opinion and community development. Their academic staff members have wide experiences and scientific background in various specializations. They currently have feeling with responsibility towards the community requirement. They effectively loaded by academic and research activities as well as student accommodation and compiling them matched to the job market demands. It is worth to mention that, the main objective of establishing the regional universities in Egypt is to contribute effectively and directly in solving the developmental constraints and support the already existing efforts in such field. In this concern, thereby our Agriculture Faculty belts several strong links with the local authorities of Fayoum Governorate, public and private sectors, as well as different bodies of society leaders. The collage, particularly agronomy department, had effectively participations through preparing and carrying out some agriculture economic development plans via these strong links. Agronomy department staff members had constructed several research and developmental project.

On the history of agriculture faculty :

Faculty of Agriculture, as one of the Fayoum University Collage, initially intended to produce well educational graduates have various knowledge's together with intellectual and transferable skills enabled them to implement any activities. The faculty academic staff members have abilities for creativity, innovation and continually development referenced to the faculty mission. They also interesting with conducting applicable researches that directly contribute to cultural and agricultural production. In this concern, agronomy department was and still responsible for improving different field crops.

From interesting point of view, in 2010, our Faculty adopted the idea of rearrangement of its educational programs structure according the standards of quality assurance and accreditation. The main objective of this process was to enhance the level of its graduates to adequate the community requirements and national and international job market demands. Therefore, its internal decree with credit hours for undergraduate students was approved by Minister of High Education Ministry, decision number 678 in April, 2, 2011. The decree including six educational programs, that authorized by agricultural studies sector committee and the national quality assurance and Accreditation Agency. The decree stated that specialisms begin in the third level and more than one scientific development should participate in any program. Among these programs, plant production program was the part of both Agronomy and Horticulture departments.

On the history of Agronomy department :

Agronomy department including elite of academic staff members distinguishing by wide experience in teaching, learning and research work. They and an adequate number of teaching assistance are currently implementing allover action duties. They performed a number of courses in the areas of field crop production, physiology, ecology, weed control, breeding, statistics …etc for under- and post –graduate students. The department provides students by various facilities that help them to obtain update knowledge and training skills which enable them to increase the cultural production of high quality products and enhance their social life level. Graduate programs for Ph.D. and M.Sc. began in 81-1982 academic year. Deepen on the Faculty Council decision, the University offering M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in agronomy.

The present academic staff and assistants :

Prof. Dr. Abd Aziz Nasr Sharaan . Prof. Dr. Farouk Mohammed Ismail. Prof. Dr. Samia Mahmoud Hassan . Prof. Dr. Ali Maher Mohammed . Prof. Dr. Fawzy said Abd el-samie. Prof. Dr. Hamdi Mahfouz Gaballah . Prof. Dr. kamal Hassan Ghallab. Prof. Dr. Ekram Ali Migawer. Prof. Dr. Mohammed Desoky Dwedar. Dr. Sameer kamel Ali. Dr salah El-dein Mohammed Emam . Dr. Ahmed Mohammed El-Sherif . Dr. Ahmed El-said khalaf. Dr. Ali Abdallah Mekdad . Dr. Ayman Hamdi Mahdy . Dr. Mohammed owis Rady.


Demonstrators : Mrs. Nesma Abd El-Nasser El-said. Mr. Mohammed Sarhan . Mr. Hassan Abdallah Abd El- Rahman. Mr. Mohammed Gamal Abbood.

Department council leadership

1- prof. Dr. Abdel Aziz Nasr Sharaan 27/10/1982 - 25/02/1993
2- prof. Dr. Farouk Mohammed Ismail 25/02/1993 - 31/07/1998
3- prof. Dr. Samia Mahmoud Hassan 01/08/1998 - 31/07/2002
4- prof. Dr. Abd El -Aziz Nasr Sharaan 01/09/2002 - 01/07/2004
5- prof. Dr. Fawzy Abd El Samei 1/8/2004 - 24/9/2006
6- prof. Dr. Sami Khalil Ghabbour 1/10/2006 - until his death
7- prof. Dr. Fawzy Abdel Samei 11/10/2010 - 31/07/2014
8- prof. Dr. Ekram Ali Migawer 15/9/2014 - until now

Department fullness and activities :

In Agronomy Department there are an equipped laboratory for under – and post – graduate students, an adequate number of teaching and discussion halls and relatively appropriate furnished rooms for members accommodation. There are many equipment enough for The need of teaching and learning, own library, computers and data show. The academic staff members currently participate in different local and foreign studies and research projects concerned with improving materials and methods of crop production. They also effectively participated in the main crops National Campaigns, integrated post control, training programs for extension members and other individual activities in and out of college.

Scientific and research aspects and specialisms :

Agronomy Department is actually responsible for teaching of 21 (obligatory & optional ) courses for all levels of under graduate students and 28 courses for postgraduate students admitted for research studies in Agronomy and other departments . In our department, the later students were usually admitted on research points that already settled in own strategic research plan which. Including three main areas that are crop production and crop breeding as well as statistics and experimental designs. Agronomy department offered 14 PhD. and 11 M.Sc. thesis for its teaching assistance and 8 of both thesis for others. Agronomy staff members published over than 240 research papers in national and international periodicals.

Post-doctoral (PD) and continual studies (CS) :

 

Name	PD and CS
Prof. Dr. Abdel-Aziz Nasr Sharaan	PD .to cornel .Univ. N.Y. state, U.S.A and Visits to other states.
Prof. Dr. Ali Maher Mohammed Ali	PD .for identification of forage, Maryland state, USA.
Prof. Dr. Kamal Hassan Ghallab	Practical training in education standards, Califeznia state, USA.
Prof. Dr. Sami Khalil Ghabbour	CS. On triticale crop, India
Dr. Ahmed El-Said Khalaf	Plant breeding diploma, Zaragoza, Spain.  PD., howaharlal Univ., India.  PD., Florencia, Italy.
Dr. Mohammed Ewise Rady	Plant breeding diploma, Zaragoza, Spain.  M.Sc. in Plant breeding, Leida Univ., Spain.
Mr. Mohammed Abd El-Salam	Training Course on soybean, USDA, USA.  Training Course in biosafety, Maryland, USDA, USA.  Sustainable Agriculture Diploma, Greece.  M.Sc. in Biotechnology, Greece.

 

National Campaigns ( NC) and research Projects (RP):

1. NC. For improving maize crop productivity (82-1988).
2. RP. On American Cotton (82-1985).
3. NC. For improving rice crop productivity (97-2006).
4. RP. The Egyptian Main Cereals Improvement, EMCIP (82-1986).
5. RP. For improving oil crop productivity (84-1999).
6. RP. Improvement of grain sorghum at Fayoum, Financed by Eg. Ac. of Sci. & Tech. (89-1999).
7. NC. For improving wheat crop productivity (85-2006 & 2012-2015).
8. RP. Integrated Pest Manage (IPM) at Fayoum (98-2000).
9. RP. Evaluation of Mung bean as new crop in Egypt (96-1998).
10. RP. Agricultural Development in Fayoum, Financed by Int. Founda. Of Agricl. Dev. (IFAD) with the joint of Fay. Agric. Dept. (AD) and Agric. Credit Bank (ACB), (82-1994).
11. Taking a part with AD & ACB, the Faculty via its specified departments including Agron. Dep. had conducted the project “the production and agricultural credit in Fayoum (85- 1990) that financed by Amer. Found. For Int. Devel. ( AFID) for technology transfer, as continuation for “ small formers project”.
12. RP. Evaluation of herbicides effectiveness at Fayoum (2015).

General and scholarly activities :

1. Performing the scientific final report of the Egyptian American project, EMCIP 1986.
2. A study on reclamation and sowing of 5 thousand Fed. At Fayoum, for Eg. Army, 1984.
3. A study for the effect of water irrigation shortage on summer crops at Fayoum, 1987.
4. A number of handbooks for individual oil crops, 1994.
5. Participation in a report concerned with “ high educational development”
6. Practical training sessions at Fayoum for extension members & farmers, including field schools.
7. Performance the internal faculty decree for undergraduate students, 2010.
8. Auditing a number of textbooks in different educational taught courses.
9. Effective participation in quality assurance and accreditation activities.

Honours awarded by Egyptian Authorities :

Honours	Honourable
Prof. Dr. Abd El Aziz Nasr Sharaan	• Scientific superior in Agric. Sci., from NRC, 1979. • Nat. encouragement prize, from Eg. Acad. Res. & Tech. 1989. • First grade excellency pendant, from Egyptian President, 1995. • Certificate of scientific cabability, from Agron. Dept., Giza, 2005.
Prof. Dr. Farouk Mohamed Ismail	• Research Marketing Honour ,2015-2016/td>
Prof. Dr. Kamal Hassan Ghallab	• Fayoum University Honour 2013-2014

Specifications of agronomist graduates

- Able and aware with allover duties of the agricultural engineering.
- Have effective ability to manage and employ the available resources, buildings and labors.
- Have ability to use adequate technologies for repairing technical and economic problems, and maintain the natural resources and ecology in the area of field production.
- Effectively aware with the conditions biological of safety and agricultural regulations
- Superior in economic exploitation of all agricultural resources.
- Use the appropriate procedures for soil reclamation and sequential sowing.
- Select and execute the suitable crop rotation that conserve agricultural resources and maximize income.
- Effectively participate in increasing soil productivity under different environmental conditions particularly through cropping sequence.
- Able to improve several programs for mineral and organic fertilizers, either individually or combined.
- Use the recent specific bio- and organic - cultures, either in fields or green house, producing safety crop products.
- Maximize the benefits from agricultural inputs together with quality maintains products.
- Manage and develop a range of different farms, and evaluate the expanded and vertical extension projects.
- Applying various statistical designs, and able to logically analyze the culture procedures and agricultural production.
- Have feeling with features of various issues concerned with environment, ecosystem, society habits, legislations, orals, ethics and economies, that related to agriculture.

Job opportunities for agronomists :

1. Agricultural work companies
2. Biotechnology testers
3. Agricultural extension centers
4. Agricultural collages
5. Agricultural collaboration departments
6. Soil reclamation agency
7. Agricultural field schools
8. Seeds production companies
9. Isolation , sorting and packing crops
10. Research institutions
11. Agricultural provinces
12. Testing and certification agency
13. Soil improvement departments
14. Agricultural guarantee
15. Agricultural experts , Justice Ministry
16. Cereals millings
17. Units of waste resources & prep. compost
18. Newly reclaimed private farms
19. Employment as demonstrator
20. Seed production and distribution companies
21. Rice strikers
22. Sugar factories
23. Construct of private crop production project
24. Employment among 20 superior graduates