Departmental Event/ Activities

Conference attended

1. Dr. Arun Kumar, Professor participated in International Conference of Agricultural Engineering held during July 8-12, 2018 at Netherland.
2. Dr. Arun Kumar, Professor participated in Advanced course on “Use of sensors in precision agriculture” at IAMZ- CIHEAM Zaragoza, Spain during Feb 3-8, 2020.

Workshop organized

1. A workshop entitled “Food-Energy-Water Nexus” was organized on September 14, 2018. Special lecture for above subject was delivered by Mr. Achintya Bezburauhb, Full Bright Fellow, North Dakota State University, USA.
2. XXII workshop of AICRP on Utilization of Animal Energy with Enhanced System Efficiency was organized w.e.f. 18-19 December, 2019 at GBPUAT, Pantnagar

Technology developed

Some of the important technologies developed by the department are as under:

1. Battery-Cum- Manually Operated Boom Sprayer
2. Self-propelled boom sprayer for intra canopy spraying
3. Pant Fertilizer Band Placement-cum- Earthing-up mchine.
4. Pant Axial Flow Multi-crop Thresher for hilly region.
5. Pant wheat thresher for hilly region
6. Solar operated paddy thresher
7. Agro-waste and waste tyre rubber hybrid composite
8. Pant Interculture and Mulching Machine for Sugarcane
9. Onion digger with Cutterbar topping unit
10. Animal drawn bio- composite planker
11. Animal drawn subsurface manure applicator
12. Tractor drawn subsurface manure applicator
13. Animal drawn seed drill for millet crop
14. Self propelled battery operated weeder
15. Six row gladiolus planter
16. Battery operated dung collector
17. Bio-diesel from pine needles and pine cones

Recent technologies commercialized

1. Pantnagar zero-till ferti seed drill
2. Pant Axial Flow Multicrop Thresher for Hilly region
3. Pant Wheat Thresher for hilly region
4. Pant-ICAR six-in-one tillage outfit
5. Pant-ICAR subsoiler-cum-differential rate fertilizer applicator

Technology awarded

Extension Activity

1. Kisan Mela: The department regularly participates in Kisan Mela organized twice in a year by the Directorate of Extension Education and displays the prototype models useful for the farming community.
2. ATIC Duty: The department deputes its faculty for answering quarries of the farmers received in ATIC cell.

Teacher’s day celebration (5 September, 2023)

Pledge on honest voting in Lok Shabha General Election-2024