College of Agricultural Engineering andTechnology

College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology comprises of six divisions: Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Soil and water conservation engineering, Processing and food engineering, Irrigation and drainage engineering, Renewable energy engineering and basic engineering and applied sciences. The college offers B.Tech Agricultural Engineering, M.Tech in five divisions and PhD in one discipline besides offering skill based courses. The college offers hostel facility for both boys and girls within the premises of beautiful landscape of SKUAST-K, Shalimar. It harbours a library, sports ground, round the clock internet facility and focus on cultural and extracurricular activities.

Mission

To generate quality Human Resource and development and introduction of hill & mountain specific farm power and machinery technologies to achieve sustainable enhanced productivity and profitability

Vission

To make hill and mountain agriculture sustainable, profitable and competitive enterprise through engineering interventions of farm mechanization and energy management in crop production.

Goals

Providing quality education that is proactive of future and relevant to agro-industrial needs
Competitive Research with high socio-economic impact and contribution towards sustainable development Foster, promote and maintain close inter-institutional and academe-industry relationship
Promotions of collaboration at National and International level
Strive for extramural funding.
Prioritize erosion risk areas for effective planning and implementation of conservation programmes.
Innovate and test cost effective resource conservation technologies for increasing biomass production from all primary production systems on rainfed, marginal, and degraded lands.
To educate and train the students to gain innovative and new knowledge on diverse food processing techniques for the improved processing quality, minimization of post-harvest losses in food grains and perishables, value addition and by-products utilization and improvised shelf enhancement methods.
Assess water availability/yield at different scales and locations, as well as under different conservation practices and climate change effects for water harvesting and its effective utilization leading to enhanced and sustainable production.
Develop indicators, decision support systems, policies, and institutional mechanisms for efficient planning, execution, monitoring, and evaluation of watershed development programmes including quantification of tangible and intangible benefits.
To impart quality education in the areas, irrigation and drainage engineering
On-farm water management using pressurized irrigation system.
Conjunctive use of surface and ground water for irrigation management.
Decision support system for water management.
Hydrologic modelling for water resources planning

Faculty Mandate

Pursue excellence in teaching for the UG, PG and Ph.D
Identification of mechanization gaps for future research
Design, Development, modification & adaptation of agricultural machines and farm power equipment’s for various field operations suitable for the region.
To cope up with the futuristic technologies for automation in different operations.
Reduction in drudgery involved in various farm operations through farm mechanization.
To carry out different extension activities for the capacity building of farmers, rural youth and other extension functionaries to enhance the farm mechanization
Undertake research and develop strategies for controlling land degradation under all primary production systems and rehabilitation of degraded lands in temperate climate of UT.
Act as repository of information on the status of soil degradation / soil and water conservation.
To develop location specific technologies in the area of soil and water conservation with the help of research.
Provide consultancy in the field of Soil and Water Conservation.
To develop strategies for use of renewable energy in agriculture with major emphasis on solar energy, bio mass, biogas, bio CNG, wind and geo thermal, energy auditing in agro system.
To develop and modify the technologies in Renewable Energy area for helping the industries, local processor and farmers such as bio fuel energy bio gas, bio oil, bio ethanol
To do energy auditing and management for Kashmir food industry
To utilize different agro, food waste and forestry waste for energy production
To transfer the developed technologies of solar energy, biomass energy and biofuels
To organize training programs and seminars for enhancement of technical knowledge in the field of renewable energy for farmers, scientists, field engineers, self-help groups (SHG), nongovernment organizations (NGO).
To generate skilled manpower in the field of irrigation and drainage engineering to cater the needs of farmers, and provide specialized information on Irrigation Water Management, pressurized irrigation systems, optimization of resources to strengthen water facilities at farmer’s fields

Organizational Structure

Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology is the coordinator of various programmes in the faculty comprising of the six Divisions and is supported by the following sections:
General Administration Section including Academics, Secrecy/ Confidential/ and Personal Section of the Dean;
Accounts Section;
Information & Communication Technology Lab;
Estates Section;
Library & Documentation section;
Hostel/Health Center; and
Workshop & vehicle section.

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