A small introduction

About Us

The Federal College of Land Resources Technology, Kuru-Jos (formerly known as the Federal Soil Conservation School) was established in 1968 by Decree 12. It was initially sited at Katsina, but later moved to Jos due to the prominence of mining activities on the Plateau, which was rapidly degrading the land.

The College, which was jointly administered by the Federal Government and USAID, commenced academic activities for Agricultural Instructors in Soil and Water Conservation on 3rd March, 1969. The administrative supervision of the College was under the Department of Land Resources & Climate Change Management Services of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development until 30th September, 2021.

With the coming into force of the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (Amendment) Act 2021 on 30th September, 2021, the management of the College was brought under the control of the Council. The Act also empowered the College to establish spin-off companies as a platform for commercializing agricultural innovation and findings.

The mandates of the College currently include training middle level manpower for the agricultural sector, particularly in land resources inventory, management and conservation, agricultural extension and socio-economics, agricultural technology, survey and geo informatics, entrepreneurship development, and soil management; development and organization of short-term courses in all aspects of agriculture; and carrying out soil advisory services to corporate bodies and individuals, among others. The physical address of the College is along Vom Road, Opposite the National Institutes for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Plateau State, Nigeria. The GPS coordinates of the College is 479309.707E 1075720.173N.

In the recent past, there has been the need to protect the Nigerian environment from the threats of degradation arising principally form soil erosion and flooding.  This led the Federal Government of Nigeria to approve in 1980 the establishment of Federal College of Land and Resources Technology, Kuru (FECOLART, Kuru).

The gesture is to train junior and intermediate personnel in order to participate in the arduous task of checking our ubiquitous land degradation problems and thereby ensuring sustainable agricultural production while conserving the soil.

The College Programmes presently cut across the humanities and natural sciences, education and environmental sciences as well as agricultural engineering technology.  The array will expand as the college’s infrastructural, personal and didactic capabilities increase.

Federal College of Land Resources Technology, Kuru (FECOLART) was approved by the federal Government in the 1981-1985 4th National Development Plat to supplement an already existing sister college at Kuru Plateau State in the areas of service and training in soil conservation and management in the humid forest ecological zone.

Among other the main objective of the colleges includes:

To train and develop junior and intermediate manpower in solid conservation and management.

  1. To develop and organize short duration course for relevant Serving professionals and private organization in order to keep them abreast of modem technique in the areas of land Resources Management and conservation.
  2. To carry out soil advisory services for government and private agencies.

In pursuance of these objectives, academic activities started on the temporary site at KM4 Old Orlu Road, Egbeada which was formally occupied by conservation centre for Eastern zone on the 20th January following the recommendations of the ministerial task force set up by the Federal Government to look into the immediate take-off of the college after some initial delays due to administrative bottlenecks. Prior to this time, we had been able to acquire a 100 square Hectares pieces of land at Oforola and Obosima for the permanent site of the college.  The land acquisition was gazette by Imo State Government in 1998.  The college is run as a training school under the authority of the Federal Ministry of Agricultural & Rural Development, Abuja.

The control and supervision of the college is vested in the Director, Federal Department of Agric Land Resources Abuja since its inception in 1992.

Meanwhile the college has produced graduates in the following five programmes as classified below:

  1. Agricultural & Bio Environmental Engineering Technology
  2. Agricultural Extension & Management
  3. Agricultural Technology
  4. Soil Science Technology
  5. Surveying & Geo-informatics

Let us introduce ourselves

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How it all came to be…

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Our Mission

To train and develop Skilled Middle Level Manpower in the area of Land Resources Conservation and Environmental Management in Order to reposition Agriculture.

Our Vision

To Become a World Class and Globally Recognized centre of Excellence in Achieving Rational Utilization of Nation Land Resources for food security and Environmental Sustainability.

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