The main goal of our Field Crops Department is to provide students with sufficient knowledge and create a research environment for innovative and scientific research; To provide students with the habit of researching, questioning, evaluating and producing; To use the department's existing infrastructure, human and Financial resources in an effective, efficient and forward-looking manner in national and international arenas; To train the scientists the country needs in the Department of Field Crops who can work in universities and other institutions and organizations. Department of Field Crops is in compliance with our country's recent education system, general policy and strategy plans.

Department of Field Crops; With its faculty members who are theoretically experienced and have a strong field experience in practice, it serves to train young people who are open- minded, technologically compatible, responsible, willing, successful and qualified, both practically and theoretically, in field crops. Department; By educating our diligent students, who have completed their education in high schools of different categories in Mardin and surrounding provinces and other provinces, and who have succeeded in taking university exams, especially those who do not have the opportunity to study in the agricultural faculties of universities further away, it enables the training of experienced agricultural engineers to whom we will deliver our future and who can build our future in an agricultural sense.

While the Department of Field Crops continues its activities in terms of education and training, on the other hand, thanks to its experienced researchers, it works in coordination with public institutions and private sector organizations that provide agricultural services and develops the projects needed by our province of Mardin, especially in the field of field crops. It also contributes to its strengthening. It is also among our goals to contribute to national and international projects and collaborations on the protection of local, wild plant genetic resources specific to our province of Mardin, one of the important centers of Mesopotamia, which is rich in agricultural genetic resources, and the Southeastern Anatolian Region in general, to transfer them to future generations, and to increase the added value of these resources.

35.4% (314,479 hectares) of the total surface area of our Mardin province consists of cultivated agricultural lands. Since field crops are grown in 82.1% of the cultivated lands, it contains a high number of research subjects. While grains (durum wheat, bread wheat, barley, corn, etc.) come first among field crops, edible legumes (red lentils, chickpeas) and industrial crops (cotton) are important plants that should be taken into consideration and should be included especially in terms of rotation. Efforts are being made to ensure that our province, which once produced more than 90% of red lentils, reaches this potential again. In addition, care is taken to carry out research on different field crops (peanuts, potatoes, coriander, sesame, sorghum, etc.), which are particularly drought-resistant and can be rotated with grains, and to grow plants that show successful results.

In conclusion; One of our primary goals is to train knowledgeable, well-equipped, talented and skilled agricultural engineers who will lead the society, especially in field crops, by developing a unique understanding of agriculture in an environment that complements education with research and practice, and who have a sense of responsibility and can put the theoretical education they receive into practice. In addition, it is our important mission to be a leading institution that produces solutions to farmers' problems and responds to their needs through research and projects on field crops with faculty members who come from practice and are experts in their fields.