HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Goris State Agricultural College of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport is the oldest agricultural educational institution in the region. Today the institution is 88 years old. It was founded by the government of Republic of Armenia in 1931.Like in all Soviet countries so in Zangezur province rural collective farms were massively created which required agricultural specialists.
The need for agricultural specialists became the basis for the establishment of the college.
Initially, the college had only a zootechnical department and was called a Zootechnical College. Subsequent reforms in agriculture made the need for the expansion of the list of proffessions, new departments of agronomy, veterinary and horticulture were opened.
1959 year
In 1959 the distance learning faculty in a number of professions was opened and in 1961 the college had its first graduates. The faculty aimed at providing agricultural education without being cut off from the work. In Soviet times there used to be more than 350 students in the faculty. Now this number is limited to hundred.
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