India: Crops, Culture, Food, and Traditions - Winter Break 2025-2026
India: Crops, Culture, Food, and Traditions - Winter Break 2025-2026
India: Crops, Culture, Food, and Traditions - Winter Break 2025-2026
Learn about the fall 2025 course, "India: Crops, Culture, Food and Traditions" which will travel December 29, 2025 - January 16, 2026!
This is a great opportunity to meet the program directors, review the itinerary, and ask questions! Join us at 5:15pm in 110 Horticulture Hall on Wednesday, April 9th.
Program itinerary and content is tentative and subject to change
Learn more about dairy production and processing in India. Students will travel to Bhilwadi, India and stay at the Chitale Dairy farm for the duration of the mini-internship. The internship will include exposure to dairy cattle and water buffalo, a milk processing plant, a veterinary diagnostic laboratory, and an agricultural extension program.
Program dates and itinerary are tentative and subject to change
Emily Kihlstrom, a junior in agronomy, took part in a CALS travel course to India from December 29 to January 15. Participants were able to learn first-hand about India’s different crops (vegetables, coconut, banana, tea, coffee, rice, rubber, cashew, spices, pineapple, etc.) and production techniques. Students had the opportunity to visit regional vegetable, spice, and flower markets and interact with students at the Kerala Agricultural University.
Room: 110 Horticulture Hall (Conference Room)