India
Indian agriculture accounts for one of the largest markets of agricultural products, food, fiber and fuel. This program provides the opportunity to develop a global perspective and broaden understanding of Indian agriculture, farming, and food supply chain. India’s agricultural system consists of big and small land-holding and subsistence farming, and heavily relies on locally-grown produce. Students will visit research centers, rural communities, and agricultural industries, and learn about India’s agricultural system.
This new program offers cultural and academic experiences beyond learning in the traditional classroom. View the program flyer to learn more about excursions and highlights for this trip.
For more information about this program and how to apply, please visit the Bumpers College International Programs Office website.
Ayurveda: The Unexpected Relationship Between Agriculture and Medicine
As a pre-medical biochemistry major, I knew that I was taking a step outside of my comfort zone by joining an agricultural studies study abroad program. As a result, I spent the entirety of my time in India not only learning about a new culture, but also genuinely...
A Visit to Sheroes Café – Agra, India
I will admit that our program’s stop to Sheroes Café came as a bit of a surprise to me, but due to scheduling issues, our professors decided to make the visit a day earlier than listed. During this first day in Agra, we spent much of our time at the Taj Mahal and a...
Dayalbagh Educational Institute – Agra, India
To an outside observer, it may have looked questionable visiting three educational and / or research institutions lest the experiences start overlapping and become monotonous. However, these academic visits were among my favorite parts of my study abroad experience...
Presentations at ICGEB – New Delhi, India
Despite only four hours of sleep and some powerful jet lag, our experiential learning study abroad program in Indian agriculture wasted no time on our first day in country. We loaded the bus early in the morning for a cultural visit to Qutub Minar, a UNESCO World...
New Delhi University Videos
In addition to the previous post I have done for the university of New Delhi, I would like to show the videos described in my previous post! These two wonderful hosts shared with us their thoughts an opinions about the school and all future scientists. When you click...
Community of Dayalbagh
In the community of Dayalbagh, the people go far above the average PTA meeting. Every morning, community volunteers, ranging in age from three months to ninety years, come and work in the fields of a local university pulling weeds and tending to crops. They work for...
Sugar Mill
While in India, we had a unique opportunity to tour a sugar mill that was established over 85 years ago in 1932. The sugar mill is one of the largest of the 30 in the area, intaking 13,500 tons of sugarcane a day from roughly 40,000 farmers up to 50 km away. Fifty...
Sheroes Hangout
Sheroes Hangout is a café run by acid attack survivors and spearheaded by the Stop Acid Attacks campaign. The café serves food and drinks all day, hosts various events and parties, and has a wall of fully stocked bookshelves for visitors to read. Everyone ordered warm...
Govindgarh Greenhouses & Rose Processing
On the morning of January 7th, we began the day with a short drive to Pushkar to visit a rose processing factory. Upon arrival we were greeted with...
Nadi Village
The day started early in New Delhi as we prepared for our bus ride to Ajmer. The whole trip took roughly five hours. When we arrived in Ajmer, we met our hosts next to a gate off the side of the road and they led us through the tiny, curvy dirt roads of Nadi Village....
New Delhi University and Chandni Chowk
January 5 was our second full day in India and it began with a bus ride to the south campus of New Delhi University. The morning was foggy and along the route we encountered the typical sight of crazy traffic and lane-bobbing auto-rickshaws and meandering cows and...
The Sugar Mill
The sugar mill! At the sugar mill, we learned the process of turning sugar anew to crystal sugar. The factory was large, with over forty thousand people supply sugar cane within a fifty kilometer radius. The factory was about five stories tall, and about a mile’s...
New Delhi University
New Delhi University The New Delhi University campus that we visited is for PhD students only. The campus began as a botany focused department, but the botany department is none existent now. We had the opportunity to talk with the head of a department, the previous...
NGO Sites: Meerut, India
On our 8th full day in India, we got an early start and visited the fields of Dayalbagh Educational Institute (DEI). These fields are tended to both by students at the institute and volunteers from the local community that serve there for religious reasons. We learned...
International Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology – New Delhi, India
l After arriving in New Delhi late the previous night, our first full day in India was jam packed full of excursions. Starting off very groggy, we went to Kutub Minar. Kutub Minar is the tallest tower made solely...