About Us
Madhesh Agricultural University
The Madhesh Agricultural University (MAU) has been established on 13 th December, 2021 (27 Mansir 2078 BS) at Rajbiraj of Saptari in Madhesh Province of Nepal. This is the first autonomous agricultural university in Madhesh province, established by Madhesh Province Parliament as Madhesh Agricultural University Act 2079 (Province Agricultural University Ordinance 2078)
This university works for basic science research for knowledge generation and development of skilled human resources through education in agriculture sector. The Madhesh Agricultural University is premier institute for higher education, research and extension in the field of agriculture.

SB Thakur — Registrar
Madhesh Agricultural Univeristy
Vision
- The vision of Madhesh Agricultural University to achieve gratitude as prime university committed to contribute nation’s and province goals through quality agricultural education, innovative research and need based extension in agriculture sector.
Mission
The mission of the university is to improve all round development of agriculture, livestock, aquaculture and forestry which would raise the socio-economic conditions of the vulnerable people through quality teaching, research and extension in the direction of prosperity of Madhesh province and over all Nepal.
Goal
The goal of the university is to produce competent and quality human resources to promote agricultural education, research and development in agriculture, livestock, fishery, food technology, forestry and allied disciplines
Objective
The university aims to produce highly skilled human resources required to work on quality education, research, and development in the agricultural sector.
Teaching
- To make agricultural education responsive to the growing and changing needs of the society in general and aspirations of the farming community in particular.
- To establish a dynamic system of agricultural education to train highly skilled and competent human resource to address the challenging tasks with new emerging areas of research, extension and agro-based industry.
Research
- To develop suitable end-use technologies to solve farmers’ problems related to enhance agricultural production including animal husbandry and fisheries and foster research aimed at conceptual advances in all disciplines for technology generation in the long run.
- To establish state-of-art infrastructure including well-equipped laboratories, extensive farmlands and an operational research management system that will ensure quick, efficient and cost effective implementation of research programmes.
- To attract qualified and talented personnel to undertake research in the University.
- To produce qualified and talented personnel to conduct need based research.
Extension
- To ensure that the research findings and innovations, after their proven demonstration, are communicated to the farmers on a logistically feasible scale. This mechanism acts as an interface between farmers and researchers and enables identification of problems through a positive feedback.
- To reach the knowledge and technology to farmers on a wider scale by training the grass root level workers and officers of the central and province government’s agriculturists in the field of crop improvement, horticulture, livestock and fishery on recent advances in the respective fields through subject matter specialists.