1) Staff capacity building;
2) Enhancing under and postgraduate programs;
3) Quality education and relevance;
4) Problem solving and quality scientific research, demand driven community service and technology transfer works;
5) Practical teaching-learning process via laboratories, demonstrations, tissue culture and field visits;
6) Decentralization;
7) Improving internal revenue via fund raising, project development, continuous education and demonstration works;
8) Greenery and learning watershed development;
9) Agricultural/Farm projects;
10) Improving soil acidity problems and soil erosion;
11) Partnership and linkages;
12) Communication and staff motivation via competitive awards; and
13) Good governance.