history
The establishment decree of Iğdır Faculty of Agriculture, which was decided to be established within the body of Kafkas University, was published in the Official Gazette No. 26163 with the decision number 2006/10381. Our faculty was connected to the newly established Iğdır University with the Additional Article 100 added to the Law on the Organization of Higher Education Institutions dated 28/3/1983 and numbered 2809 on 22/05/2008.
The Department of Horticulture and the Department was established with the decision taken at the General Assembly of Higher Education dated 07.12.2007, pursuant to Article 7/d-2 of the Law No. 2547 amended by the Law No. 2880. The Department of Horticulture, which started its undergraduate education in the 2009-2010 academic year, started joint graduate education within the framework of the graduate education protocol signed between Iğdır University and Atatürk University in 2009. Later on, the Department of Interdisciplinary Agricultural Sciences, which has different applications in many different fields such as Agricultural Sciences, plant protection, horticulture, soil science and plant nutrition, agricultural economics, landscape architecture, zootechnics, field crops, food, education and research, was opened within our university. To provide interdisciplinary education within the Institute of Science and Technology in accordance with Articles 4 and 5/d of the Organization and Operation Regulation of Graduate Education Institutes, considering the Higher Education General Assembly Decision dated 25/12/2014 and reviewed at the Higher Education Executive Board meeting dated 20/06/2018. The Department of Agricultural Sciences was established and the Agricultural Sciences Master's Program affiliated to this department was deemed appropriate to be opened, and it received its first students in September 2018. The Department of Horticulture left Agricultural Sciences on 04.03.2020 and the first graduate students registered to the Department of Horticulture in the Fall 2021 semester.
