Faculty of Agriculture and Forest Resource, Souphanouvong University

The Faculty of Agriculture and Forest Resource (FAF) was established the same year as Souphanouvong University, in 2003. Our aim is to provide high education in the north of Laos. There are 5 different majors in the teaching programme: Plant Science, Animal Science, Forest Resource, Ecotourism and Food Science and Technology. In 15 years of organisation development, FAF has allowed more than 3000 students to work in NGOs, private companies, government and others in the northern part of Laos.

FAF also worked collaboratively with many institutions to build up capacity building in agricultural research and agricultural production extension and support the outcome of academic research to the farmers.

The Department of Plant Science is the main major that educates students and researches agronomy, agroecology, plant botany, plant morphology, plant genetics and biodiversity, etc.