The College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan (CNR RUB) is a college offering courses on natural resources management, that include organic agriculture, animal science, environment and climate, food science and technology, forest science and sustainable development The college is located in Lobesa, Punakha District, in central west Bhutan. The college campus is spread over 98 acres (40 ha) on the eastern slope of Lobesa and is about 140 km (87 mi) away from the Paro International Airport. Founded in 1992 as Natural Resources Training Institute (NRTI) by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests to train extension agents. The training was based on the Bhutanese farming systems; Crops, livestock and forests are the integral parts of the rural livelihood system in Bhutan. Therefore to integrate the three domains such as Crops, livestock and forests the then-National Agriculture Training Institute (NATI) located at Paro, the Royal Veterinary Institute (RVI) at Serbithang and the Bhutan Forestry Institute (BFI) at Taba were brought under one umbrella named as the Natural Resources Training Institute (NRTI) at Lobesa with funding support from Swiss Development Corporation (SDC), Helvetas and the Royal Government of Bhutan. The NRTI established in 1992 was under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests until 2002. The NRTI joined the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) in 2003 as one of the constituent member colleges, and was named thereafter as the College of Natural Resources (CNR). As NRTI, the institute offered Diploma courses in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Forestry for the mid-level extension workers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests until 2002. The College of Natural Resources (CNR), Royal University of Bhutan (RUB), continued to offer Diploma courses as nested programmes after 2010 after the Bachelor programmes were introduced in Agriculture, Animal Science, and Forest Science. By 2012 the college started to offer Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Development, and in July 2015, Bachelor of Science programme in Environment and Climate Studies was introduced. The college started to offer post graduate programme such as Master in Development Practice (MDP) in 2014. MDP, is a global multidisciplinary programme. Similarly, Master of Science in Natural Resources Management by Research programme (MSc NRM) was launched in 2015. Further, a Bachelor of science programmes namely BSc in Food Science and Technology was launched in the year ... More information...
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