Brief history of the College of agriculture Kabba
College of agriculture Kabba was established on the 10th April, 1963 built with the assistance of the United State Agency for international Development (USAID) in 1964 and was commissioned by the late Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello Sardauna of Sokoto, premier of the then northern region on the 10th May, 1965. . The College was initially under the Northern Region, Ministry of Agriculture until April 1968 when it was transferred to the institute of Agricultural research Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. On the 1st October 1969 accordingly, all the facilities and staff of the college were formally transferred to Ahmadu Bello University and the college became one of the three colleges under the Division of Agricultural and Livestock services training (DALST), currently called the Division of Agricultural Colleges (DAC). The college initially ran Agricultural assistant course from 1964 to 1972. The core mandate of the college is to train middle level man power in the field of agriculture.
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The history of the Colleges that make up the Division of Agricultural Colleges of Ahmadu Bello University dates back to 1921 when the northern Nigerian Government started a farm training centre at Maigana, at the outskirt of Zaria, in the then Zaria Province. The waxing popularity of agriculture at that early period led to the desire to modernize traditional practices, through the incorporation of new generated researched technologies in training and to introduce the concepts of commercial agriculture. That paved the way for the Centre to be transferred from Maigana to the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) Samaru in 1928.
The Farm Training Centre started formal training in 1931 and had its first graduates in 1932 designated as Agricultural Assistants (AA). Students were drawn from within the Northern Province and sponsored by their various Native Authorities. The day-to-day running of the Centre and subsequent improvements of its infrastructures and staffing were totally the responsibility of the Northern Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. This Centre later metamorphosed into the present day Samaru School of Agriculture, which later became the present Samaru College of Agriculture.
PHYLOSOPY
- To develop quality assurance mechanism of our academic programmes
- To rehabilitate, upgrade and expand learning and research facilities in the Division
- To digitize the Division's libraries, computerize and create databases for all the units in the Division
- To upgrade staff and students health and welfare facilities
- To reform staff development and strengthen capacity building
- Collaboration with similar Institutions and industries globally
- To establish and maintain entrepreneurial skills acquisition centres as well as develop frame work for market oriented research
- To establish public relation unit for advocacy, enlightenment and community services
- To strengthen the security systems in the Division