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Faculty of Agriculture. The Faculty of Agriculture is the oldest faculty of the university. It was founded in 1914 as the School of Agriculture, and in 1966 it was incorporated into the newly established University of Mauritius. The Faculty of Agriculture operates the UoM Farm, an open laboratory of 8.5 hectares (21 acres). The faculty ...
The Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture was founded in 1853. The Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Mauritius was founded in 1914. Mauritius is a net food importer, with an overall self-sufficiency ratio of 25%. This caused major economic stress following the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
Pravind Kumar Jugnauth [2] [3] (born 25 December 1961) is a Mauritian politician serving as the prime minister of Mauritius since January 2017. Jugnauth has been the leader of the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) party since April 2003. [4] He has held a number of ministerial portfolios and also been Leader of the Opposition.
Higher education in Mauritius includes colleges, universities and other technical institutions. Public university education has been free to students since 2019. The sector is managed by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) which has the responsibility for allocating public funds, and fostering, planning and coordinating the development of post-secondary education and training.
Paul Raymond Bérenger GCSK, MP (born 26 March 1945) is a Mauritian politician who was Prime Minister of Mauritius from 2003 to 2005. He has been Leader of the Opposition on several occasions – from 1983 to 1987, 1997 to 2000, 2005 to 2006, 2007 to 2013, October 2013 to 15 September 2014, and again from December 2014 to December 2016 when he was replaced by Xavier-Luc Duval.
Paul Octave Wiehe CBE (1910-1975) was a Mauritian botanist. [1] [2] Wiehe was born on 21 October, 1910, in Labourdonnais, Rivière du Rempart. [3] He obtained a scholarship in 1930 to study at the Mauritius College of Agriculture. He went on to Imperial College in London where he obtained a degree Botany and became an Associate of the Royal ...
Source: Mauritius Blue Book, L'Almanach de Maurice de Sornay, Pierre (1952). Isle de France, Ile Maurice pp367. Mauritius is situated in what has been called 'Cyclone Alley' and these sometimes played a determining part in the annual production of sugar. Of note and on record were: The April 1892 Mauritius cyclone (1200 deaths - 50,000 homeless).
Mauritius is a multi-ethnic, multilingual and a plural society with a population composed mainly of four major ethnic and religious groups. It is often depicted as a "rainbow nation". The island of Mauritius did not have any indigenous population and has been characterized by successive waves of European colonization and multiple immigrations.