v  To provide facilities for study of agriculture and allied subjects looking at the prosperity of rural West Bengal

v  To conduct research in agricultural and allied sciences

v  To undertake outreach education programmes concerning agriculture and allied pursuits

v  To provide appropriate technology support and consultation / advices to the state government and its activities for development of agriculture

a)      Establishment of the NICHE area of research on Arsenic followed by sanction of a NAIP project made BCKV as one of the leader in research activities on Arsenic in food-chain and its mitigation. Organisations like Dept. of Agriculture and Cooperation, Govt. of India; ICAR are sanctioning projects on this line at a regular interval. Arsenic task force, Govt. of West Bengal; Agriculture Department Govt. of West Bengal showed confidence on the recommendations given by the Faculties of BCKV.

b)      Partial assistance from development grant to establish Class one observatories (as per WMO standard), automatic weather station and procurement of equipment made Department of Agro meteorology as one of the leading centre in the Country. The facilities further improved through financial assistance under AICRP system and adhoc projects. At present both ICAR and IMD found BCKV as the appropriate place to train agro meteorologists of the country.

c)      Infrastructural facilities have been created as well as sufficient number of desk top computers purchased by utilizing ICAR development grant fund. This helps in effective utilization of CERA by the students in the library as well as in the ARIS cell of BCKV

d)      With the support from ICAR development grant a moderately equipped (hard wire facilities) Geo informatics laboratory has been established Important software packages viz. QGIS GRASS, ERDAS Imagine and Geoderma Professionals have also been purchased to run the activities of the laboratory. Besides teacher In charge of the lab down loaded many important soft wire packages available at free of cost. University is utilizing this facility to train the Post Graduate students by conducting the practical of PG level courses. So far, this lab supported the thesis work of one Ph. D, two M. Sc(Ag) and one M.Tech students.

e)      With the support of ICAR development fund Computer Aided Designed; Computer Aided Monitoring; CNC lathe machine; Agro processing centre; farm Machinery testing laboratory etc. has been established in faculty of Agricultural Engineering. These laboratory backup are fully utilized by both Under Graduate and Post Graduate level students of the faculty.

f)       A modern computer laboratory with 45 nodes has been setup in the Department of Agricultural Statistics to conduct classes of students and research scholars. All official operating software packages has been procured and internet connectivity provided in this laboratory. The facility has been generated with the help of ICAR development grant.

g)      During 2016-17 session Education Division ICAR sanctioned one Niche Ares of Excellence (NAE) to BCKV entitled Candidate-gene assisted breeding of rice for the improvement of yield and tolerance against a biotic stress and nutrient deficiency using land race of Bengal.

h)      With the help of ICAR development grant audio-video system in all the theoretical class rooms have been geared up with inverter. Thus now even there is a power cut, the classes continue without any interruption.

i)        A good number of Practical Manuals have been developed for the benefit of the students

j)       In Faculty of Horticulture, 6 Nos. of PG laboratories have been developed through renovation of old structures. Besides, One seminar room with 60 persons capacity has also been developed.