Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur

Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV) is the state agricultural university of Chhattisgarh, based at Krishak Nagar in Raipur. It came into being on 20 January 1987, when it was separated from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur, and its jurisdiction covers all 33 districts of the state. Its roots go back to the Labhandi Farm research station set up in 1903, later the Madhya Pradesh Rice Research Institute, and to the College of Agriculture, Raipur, opened in 1961. The university reports a total campus area of about 1,100 acres.

IGKV teaches through faculties of agriculture and agricultural engineering, and in 2024 it listed 28 constituent and 11 affiliated private colleges, eight research centres and 27 Krishi Vigyan Kendras across Chhattisgarh. Undergraduate degrees are B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture and B.Tech. in agricultural engineering and food technology, while postgraduate study covers M.Sc. in agriculture, horticulture and forestry, M.Tech. in agricultural engineering, an MBA in agribusiness management and Ph.D. programmes. In NIRF 2025 it is ranked 28th in agriculture, 51-100 among state public universities and 151-200 among universities.