Introduction

Nepal is Predominantly Agricultural country with 81 percent population tied up in agriculture, producing 42 percentage of the country's Gross Domestic Product. Agriculture Perspective plan envisages great potential for technology based increases in resource productivity with multiplier effects on other sector of the economy .Hence agriculture dominates through its direct and indirect influences on employment and livelihood of the people of Nepal. Trained human resources in agriculture is one of the important components of the country's development to catalyze the over all processed of sustainable agricultural development.

The Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS) is the only Agricultural institute under Tribhuvan University in Nepal for providing higher-level academic training in agriculture and animal sciences. The IAAS traces its origin to a school of agriculture, established in 1957 in Kathmandu to train Junior Technical Assistant (JTAs). In 1968,the school was upgraded with I.Sc. Agriculture program to college of agriculture. In 1972,the college was recognized as the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science under Tribhuvan University and moved to the present location at Rampur, Chitwan in 1974.Presently,the institute has three campuses Rampur Campus at Rampur, Chitwan, Lamjung Campus at Sundarbazar, Lamjung, and Paklihawa Campus at Paklihawa, Rupendehi.

The dean's office has been located at the Rampur, Chitwan, within the premise of Rampur Campus. The office includes a Central Management Team to run the institute, headed by Dean.