The Faculty of Agriculture has its own and important objectives in providing students with basic and applied education of agricultural science related to "Food, Environment and Health/Life." Major educational fields include science for food production, evaluation and utilization of bioresources and recently focused issues of biotechnology, food safety, and conservation of natural environment. The Faculty aims at helping students to improve creative abilities compatible with technological advances in our rapidly changing society.
The Faculty of Agriculture consists of the five Departments listed below. It also has an attached experimental farm (Food Resources Education and Research Center) in Kasai City, 70 km west of the Rokko-dai Campus. The Center has a 40 ha. field and facilities for production of rice, vegetables, orchards, grasses and livestock as well as lodgings for students' practical training. Three other Centers (Center of Regional Cooperation, Center of Gene Experiment, and Center of Food Safety Science) are in cooperation with the Faculty.
The number of faculty members is 75. At present, 727 students (including one foreign student) are studying at the undergraduate level. At the graduate level, 257 master course students and 101 doctor course students (including 61 foreign students) are studying in the Graduate School of Science and Technology. The Graduate School of Agricultural Science will be established in April 2007, reorganized from the current Graduate School of Science and Technology. It will be consisted of three Departments, and provide students with opportunities for more discipline-oriented education.