University of Agricultural Sciences was established in 1964 as UAS Bangalore by a legislative act. The rulers of Mysore Kingdom felt the need to establish research units in the field of agriculture and donated about 30 acres of land to set up an Experimental Agricultural Station at Hebbal. A banyan is a fig that starts its life as an epiphyte when its seeds germinate in the cracks and crevices on a host tree. It is known as the national tree of India.