Présentation de la Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques de l'Université du Burundi

The project "Faculty of Agricultural Sciences" in Burundi. The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Burundi, was created in 1976 and organizes the education for the last three years of the course, the first two ones being covered by the Faculty of Sciences. The cooperation with Belgium started same year under the coordination of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Catholic University of Louvain. New buildings are available since 1988, in Bujumbura. Six Belgians are permanently posted for the educational and research programme, together with some volonteers. There are 8 departments (Fertilisation and Agricultural techniques, Animal production, Forestry and Biometries, Plant improvement and Ecology, Plant protection, Rural socio-economics, Technology and Rural engineering, Soil Sciences). Following scientific activities can be mentioned i. a. : rice improvement in altitude swamps, use of local products like fosfates and manure, swamp reclamation, farming Systems, extractible plant products, small ruminants selection, ..