The College of Horticulture, Hiriyur was established on 27.5.2010 under the UAHS, Bagalkot. Later (1 April 2012) it came to the Administrative control of University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga. Hiriyur is a small town located in the Chitradurga District, around 40 km from the Chitradurga. This place is renowned for having the oldest dam in Karnataka, Mari Kanive, which is built across the Vedavati River. Vani Vilas Sagar is an artificial lake built by the Maharaja of Mysore across river Vedavati having dimensions 162 ft by 1300 ft. This reservoir comprises two pavilion halls built in saracenic style.This town is famous for the Teru Malleshwara Temple, which is built in Dravidian style and comprises lofty Pyramidal towers. The ceiling of the main hall is painted with the scenes from Shiva Purana and Ramayana.
Growth of Institution
- The College of Horticulture, Babbur farm, Hiriyur which was started functioning during the year 2010, has successfully completed 8 years of fruitful academic accomplishment. It was started as part of ruralization of Horticulture education as envisaged by Govt. of Karnataka, in offering B.Sc.(Hort.) degree programme. It is located in Babbur Farm Campus of Hiriyur taluk under the administrative control of University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga.
- The College of Horticulture, Hiriyur was established on 27.5.2010 under the UAHS, Bagalkot. Later (1 April 2012) it came to the Administrative control of University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga. Location- The College of Horticulture is situated on 40 Kms away from Chitradurga on Bangalore-Puna highway (NH-48) under Central Dry Zone of Karnataka. The longitude is 700 37’ East, 130 57’ latitude at 606.1m MSL. It is located at 3 km away from Hiriyur city. The college Campus is having 120 ha of land, in which Coconut, Mango, Banana, sapota, tamarind and other crops are being cultivated.. Soil pH ranges from 8.2-8.9. The soils are red sandy loam to deep black. The mandate crops of the centre are Coconut, Sapota, Orange, Pomegranate, Fig and Onion.
- Hiriyur is a small town located in the Chitradurga District, around 40 km from the Chitradurga. This place is renowned for having the oldest dam in Karnataka, Mari Kanive, which is built across the Vedavati River. Vani Vilas Sagar is an artificial lake built by the Maharaja of Mysore across river Vedavati having dimensions 162 ft by 1300 ft. This reservoir comprises two pavilion halls built in saracenic style.This town is famous for the Teru Malleshwara Temple, which is built in Dravidian style and comprises lofty Pyramidal towers. The ceiling of the main hall is painted with the scenes from Shiva Purana and Ramayana.
- The Horticulture College in its 8 year tenure has made a remarkable achievements, so for 4 degree batches have completed their degree out of which all the batches (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17) have 100 percent results and for all the three consecutive degree batches Hiriyur Horticulture college secured University gold medals with three sponsored gold medals every year. Our college students have participated in inter collegiate, state and national athletics, Youth festivals, etc., and won either winners or runners up in any of the events. During 2016, Horticulture college, Hiriyur has been acreditated by National Agricultural Education Acreditation Board (NAEAB) of ICAR, New Delhi for the period from 2016 to 2021. In post graduate Junior Research Fellow (JRF) entrance exams our college students have opened an account during 2015 with 2 ranking viz, Bhanushree (6th Rank), Chandini. M. L (38th Rank) and Pooja. A (69th Rank) in All India basis. Bhanushree and Pooja. A have got M.Sc. seat at ICAR, New Delhi. During 2016 our college student Mr. Nikhil. H. N has secured All India first rank in PG entrance JRF exam with Harish. H (3rd Rank), Megha. R (6th Rank), Vidya. R (19th Rank), Ravitej. K. N (26th Rank), Tarakeshwari. K. R (32nd Rank), Srinivas. J (52nd Rank- cat-6th) and Pooja. S (353rd Rank- cat-6th) and got seats at ICAR, New Delhi, Orissa, HAU, KAU, etc., In addition 3 ranks in JNU, New Delhi all India Entrance exam in Biotechnology. This is one of the revolutionary achievements made by our students. Based on this historical achievements our UAHS, Shivamogga has secured second position in the country with award of 9 PG students admissions during 2017 in Horticulture and Forestry from UAHS, Shivamogga. Like this in future coming years also my college students should perform better and to achieve the good rankings and establish a good name and fame to the COH, Hiriyur and UAHS, Shivamogga. I wish all the best for my students and staff for making achievement in future also.