PAU was set up at a time when the country was facing an acute shortage of food grains and was heavily dependent on food imports. Keeping in view the dire need to increase productivity and production, PAU made strenuous efforts to develop high yielding, input responsive crop varieties. Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), set up in 1962, has its roots in Punjab Agricultural College and Research Institute, Lyallpur (now Faisalabad in Pakistan) that was established in 1906. After the partition of the country, the classes of the students who migrated from Lyallpur were started in November 1947 at Khalsa College Amritsar, shifted to Malwa Khalsa High School, Ludhiana in March 1949 and then to its present site in 1957. The University initially had campuses at Ludhiana, Hisar and Palampur.
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