Facilities
The department of Agriculture offers great teaching, and complements this with an extensive range of facilities for students and researchers. They include:
- Indoor animal housing for sheep, pigs and chickens
- Outdoor facilities for horses and cattle
- Fully equipped soils laboratory
- Molecular biology laboratories
- Pesticide research facilities including screening of plants, insects and parasite models
- Insect release facilities
- Trial cropping plots
- Atomic absorption spectrophotometer
- Agricultural communication and extension services
- Protein analysis laboratory
- Plant growth cabinets for all trial conditions
- Protein chemistry and separation laboratory
- Immunodiagnostic and immunoassay development laboratory
- Parasite control laboratory
- Flow injection analyzer
- Blood gas analysers
- ICP analyzer
- Carbon-nitrogen-sulfur auto-analyser
- Ultracentrifuge
- FPLC equipment
- An orchard and vineyard
- 5 tonne winery
- Undergraduate computer laboratory
- Postgraduate computers
- Full web and network integration and access.
