From its initial interest in agribusiness, agricultural economics, and natural resource economics, the faculty has broadened to include economics, finance, accounting and business management.
The industries under this conglomerate include textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure development, agribusiness, hospitality, textiles, aviation etc.
Agribusiness, both privately and government-owned, expanded from the 1960s and subsistence farmers were partly viewed as a past relic from which agribusiness could modernise.
