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About The Department

Considering the importance of agriculture in ensuring food and nutritional security, Agricultural Engineering department had been incepted at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1952 according to the recommendation of the Dhar committee appointed by the Board of Governors. Subsequently, with upgradation of its academic programmes, the department was re-christened as Agricultural & Food En ... Read More

Considering the importance of agriculture in ensuring food and nutritional security, Agricultural Engineering department had been incepted at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1952 according to the recommendation of the Dhar committee appointed by the Board of Governors. Subsequently, with upgradation of its academic programmes, the department was re-christened as Agricultural & Food Engineering department in 1994. Among 23 IIT institutes, IIT Kharagpur has the sole distinction of having an Agricultural & Food Engineering department, which comprises of six disciplines such as Farm Machinery and Power, Land and Water Resources Engineering, Agricultural Biotechnology, Food Process Engineering, Agricultural Systems Management and Aquacultural Engineering, respectively. Sponsored research projects and development activities deal with Integrated Rainwater Management, Soil Tillage, Utilisation of Fly ash, Ergonomic Database for Agricultural Equipment, Integrating Remote Sensing Data with Distributed Hydrological Models, Model Pilot Plant and koji room facilities for production of industrial enzymes etc. The department has filed several patent applications and transferred many technologies to the industries and various stake-holders based on its innovative research. Read less

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Message from the Head

Prof. Madan Kumar Jha

Head of the Department

head@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in

+91-3222-282244   |   +91-3222-282244

Everything else can wait, agriculture can't
                                                  - Norman Borlaug
Agriculture is the numero uno for Indian economy. The Agricultural and Food Engineering Dep ... Read More

Everything else can wait, agriculture can't
                                                  - Norman Borlaug
Agriculture is the numero uno for Indian economy. The Agricultural and Food Engineering Department is unique of its kind in the IIT system. The department has dedicated and talented faculty, which offers UG/PG/MS/Ph.D programmes in varied disciplines of Agricultural Engineering and Sciences.

To strengthen the National Education Policy (NEP), students are encouraged to pursue internships in different industries, corporate houses. The department also encourages multi-disciplinary research and facilities financial support for presentation of research outcome in international fora that ultimately helps in inter-disciplinary and international collaborations. The major domain of research and development includes Precision agriculture, biofuel and bionergy, modern food processing, plasticulture and micro-irrigation, Climate Change, hydrological modeling, ground water management, water management, agricultural biotechnology, pollution abatement, extrusion technology, intelligent and high pressure packaging, soil mapping and image analysis for plant phenotyping.
 
The department has high-throughput equipments, NABL accreditated Analytical Food Testing laboratory, Advanced Laboratories in varied domains, Filed/Granted several patents and published research-cum-review papers in peer-reviewed international journals.
 
With the objectives of Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self reliant Nation), the department would emulate excellent Scientific and Academic ambience in the area of teaching and research for the edification of society and mankind.
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Faculty has published more than 2200 research findings with an h-index of 60 and i10-index of 505. In addition, 34 books, 64 patents and 16 copyrights related to agricultural production, processing and management technologies are credited as faculty academic contributions.

Faculty and students have received several awards like Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Jawahar Lal Nehru Award to name a few.

  • Agro-Bio Technology Lab
  • Computer Facilities/Computer Lab
  • Computer Simulation And Design Lab
  • Ergonomics Lab
  • Farm Machinery Shed
  • Farm Management
  • Farm Power And Machinery Lab
  • Field Water Management Lab
  • Gis And Hydro-Informatics Lab
  • High Pressure Food Processing Lab
  • Non-Point Source Pollution Lab
  • Open Top Chamber Facility And Climate Change Research
  • Water Management
  • Workshop
  • 3D printing of Food
  • Abiotic Stress in Plants
  • Agricultural Water Management
  • AI and ML for Water Management
  • AI, ML, Cognitive Science
  • AI/ML applications in food processing
  • AL/ML for satellite image interpretation
  • Algal Refinery
  • Application of UAV for crop management
  • Application of UAVs for crop management
  • Aquacultural engineering solutions
  • Aquacultural Environmental Management
  • Aquacultural Systems Management
  • Atmospheric Moisture Transport
  • Automation in Agricultural Operations
  • Basin-wide Groundwater Modeling
  • Bio-energy & Development of Relevant Materials
  • Bioactives from microalgae
  • Biochemistry of floral scent volatiles
  • Biodegradable and active packaging
  • Bioenergy
  • Blockchain for Food Traceability
  • Carbon Capture & Storage in Cropping sys
  • CFD application in food processing
  • Climate Change & Adaptation Analysis
  • Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation
  • Climate Change and Climate Modelling
  • Climate Change and Soil Health
  • Climate Change Impact on Water Resource
  • Climate dynamics
  • Climate Impacts on Water Resources
  • Climate model evaluations
  • CO2 mitigation and utilization
  • Crop Evapotranspiration Modelling
  • Crop Modeling and Simulation
  • Crop Yield Modelling
  • Data Mining
  • Design of food processing machineries
  • Development of onion harvester
  • Diffuse Agricultural Pollution
  • Digital Soil Mapping
  • Electrostatic charging of liquid droplet
  • Encapsulation of Bioactives
  • Engineering Properties of Food Materials
  • Enzymology
  • Ergonomics & Industrial Safety
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Extraction & Encapsulation of Bioactives
  • Farm Machinery Systems Design
  • Field Investigation & Seawater Intrusion
  • Fish Health Management
  • Flood forecasting using machine learning
  • Flood hazard and risk analysis
  • Food Compositional Analysis
  • Food Packaging and Storage
  • Food Stability and Shelf life
  • Foodomics
  • Fuctional Food Development
  • Fuel cells
  • Geo-informatics for hydrologic modeling
  • Goundwater-Surface Water Interaction
  • Grain Storage and Handling
  • GW Management using RS, GIS and MCDA
  • Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Herbal Neutaceuticals Extraction
  • High Altitude Food Processing
  • Histochemistry of plant metabolites
  • Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Eng
  • hydrological extremes
  • Hydrological Modeling
  • Hydrological Modelling & Watershed Manag
  • Hyperspectral Sensing
  • Impact of climate change on flood risk
  • Indian Monsoon Rainfall, Extreme Events
  • Input use efficiency
  • Instrumentation and Process Control
  • Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
  • Machine Design
  • Machine vision systems for food
  • Management of Mechanized Agriculture
  • Metabolic physiology of aromatic plants
  • Microalgal Biofuels
  • Microbial Food Safety & Risk Assessment
  • Natural Fibres
  • Natural products from root cultures
  • Non-invasive Sensors
  • Non-thermal processing of foods
  • Nonthermal Methods of Food Processing
  • Nonthermal Surface Sanitization of Food
  • Novel Food Product & Process Development
  • Nutrient management
  • Nutritional Quality
  • Organic Farming & Crop Quality
  • Plant Molecular Biology
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions
  • Portable XRF Applications in Soil
  • Post Harvest & Food Process Engineering
  • Precision Agriculture
  • Process automation in food processing
  • Process Equipment Design and Development
  • Process Modeling and Simulation
  • Processing and value addition of millets
  • Product and Process Development
  • Protein Chemistry
  • Remote Sensing Applications
  • Renewable energy operated agri-machinery
  • Rice / Food Fortification
  • RTE/RTC/RTD foods & beverage process
  • Rubber tracks for walking tractor
  • SAR polarimetry
  • Satellite ocean color
  • SCF Extraction & Microencapsulation
  • Secondary metabolism - molecular biology
  • Shelf life extension through CAS/MAP/EC
  • Signal transduction and gene expression
  • Smart Agri-Tech systems
  • Smart and Functional Food Packaging
  • Smartphone-based affordable soil testing
  • Soil Physics
  • Soil Spectroscopy
  • Soil Tillage and Traction Research
  • Solar drying
  • Statistical hydrology
  • Sustainability and Circular Economy
  • Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization
  • Sustainable agricultural systems
  • Sustainable Food Processing
  • Sustainable Production Agriculture
  • Unmanned agricultural machinery
  • Valorization of macro and microalgae
  • Water and wastewater treatment
  • Water Harvesting and Artificial Recharge
  • Water remote sensing
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus