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In this regard, we want to include a much more stringent research component within the faculty to produce influential research that can be published in the public domain and work to design that research aspect has begun,\u201d said Songca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also announced that the university has finally started work in investigating and doing the spadework in an effort to pursue an academic offering in the agricultural space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Songca said that the university had identified potential partners, experts and collaborators to assist the university in conceptualising and designing a BSc AgriTech programme that would see its first intake of students by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe work towards this goal must start now so that we can produce a body of work which we can submit to the senate in their next sitting in July or August. 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