Indira Gandhi Agricultural University (IGAU), Raipur (Chhattisgarh) is a State Agricultural University. It came in to existence on January 20, 1987 through the Madhya Pradesh Act No. 20, 1987, carved out of Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya (JNKVV), Jabalpur amalgamating its constituents situated in 6 districts of Chhattisgarh region. Chhattisgarh state, which itself came into existence on 1st November 2000, now has 16 District and is bounded by Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh. Covering a geographical area of 13.5 million hectares, it is predominately a tribal state heaving 44% of tribal and backward population. The total population is about 2.2 million out of which 31.7% are schedule tribes and 11.1% are schedule castes. At present, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University is the only State Agricultural University in Chhattisgarh. It has four faculties viz. Agriculture, Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Dairy Technology, and Agricultural Engineering. Agriculture faculty has 13 departments viz. Agronomy, Plant Breeding / Genetics, Soil Science, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics, Land & Water Management, Agricultural Extension, Mathematics and Agricultural Statistics, Physics & Agrometerology, Fishery, and Forestry. Teaching, research and extension in these subjects in being carried as per the mandate of the University Teaching both UG and PG level is being conducted at the 6 affiliated collages of University. Department of Horticulture has facilities for teaching and specialization at Post-graduate and Doctoral level. Some of the projects operative in the Department of Horticulture are AICRIP on, Vegetable Improvement, Potato Improvement, Tuber crops, Cashew, Palm and Spices, Ad-hoc project on Litchi, as well as NATP besides PFDC is also operative in this department.