Governance The chancellor is the
Governor of West Bengal. The vice-chancellor as the chief executive of the university is supported by the registrar in administration, comptroller in financial management, deans of academic activities of the faculties, and directors for management of research and extension activities in agriculture, horticulture, and agricultural engineering. The vice-chancellor's secretariat is staffed with a secretary to the vice-chancellor, one superintendent, two clerical assistants and seven office attendants are a supportive unit in functioning the office.
Faculties Faculty of Agriculture The Faculty of Agriculture consisted of 17 departments, which has recently been reduced to 16 by merging two departments into one, all with specializations in teaching, research and extension for the development of agriculture in this state. One hundred students are admitted each year in the undergraduate courses on the basis of their performance at higher secondary (10+2) level. Apart from the general agricultural subjects, during 7th semester students take Rural Agricultural Working Experience (RAWE) & Experimental Learning Programme (ELP) in 8th semester.
Faculty of Horticulture The Faculty of Horticulture was established in 1996. The objective of creation of the faculty was to initiate education and training in horticulture, to conduct need-based research for the development of horticulture in West Bengal, and to disseminate the technology for growing horticultural crops and post harvest management of produce. Initially the faculty functioned with very limited space in the Faculty of Agriculture. Now it is housed in the newly constructed faculty building at Mohanpur. The instructional facilities include one horticultural farm at Mondouri and one nursery at Jagulia. The UG classes are held at Jagulia where a small instructional farm is maintained. The 150-acre farm at Mondouri that is the Horticultural Research Station provides facilities for practical and project works of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students for all the departments under this faculty.
Faculty of Agricultural Engineering M.Tech. and Ph.D. programmes are available in Department of Farm Machinery & Power, Department of Soil and Water Engineering and Department of Food Engineering.
Directorate of Research The Directorate of Research at Kalyani is the coordinating–monitoring headquarters of the research stations, sub-stations, units, sub-units and projects spread over the jurisdiction of the viswavidyalaya. A substantial number of research projects under programmes and funding modes operate on farmers’ fields (on-farm trials, FLD trials) at three major agro-climatic regions of the state and at other zones across West Bengal. Several experiments are conducted in a scientist–farmer participatory manner.
Directorate of Extension Education The Directorate of Extension Education, in the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, was created in 1994 through upgrading the Field Extension Wing, which took care of mainly the farm advisory services among a few villages surrounding the headquarters campus of the Viswavidyalaya. The upgrade attempt, though initiated late, was made in line with the mandate of the SAUs to organize "first line extension" activities to complement their research and education role, as well as to strengthen the efforts of the state extension machinery towards transferring proven and tested technological options for increased production and productivity. However, the manpower, as well as the infrastructure, corresponding to the enlargement of the mandated roles and responsibilities assumed by the directorate, consequent to its upgrade, continued to remain inadequate. The roles and responsibilities of the Directorate of Extension Education were enlarged to accommodate the recommendations of the Randhawa Committee (1978) and the National Commission on Agriculture (1976). These recommendations, inter-alta, suggested a complementary role for the education and research for organizing the extension functions through the following sets of interrelated activities: • Technology Refinement and Upgradation • Technology Integration • Publication, Demonstration & Information Assistance • Participatory Techniques for Research and Extension • Training Module Development • Capacity Building
Directorate of Farms The Directorate of Farms functions in the realm of agricultural research, education, and extension. The directorate has 1340.6 acres of land distributed in 12 farms. Its activities are listed below: • Support to research activities of AICRPs/AINPs and dissertation work of students. • Quality seed production. It was responsible for the production and distribution of 236 tonnes of quality seeds (Foundation/Certified/TL) of paddy, wheat, oilseeds and pulses during 2006-07 crop seasons of West Bengal. • Supervises production of planting materials of mango, cashew, ber and sweet orange at the RRS, Red & Laterite Zone, Jhargram, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal. • Maintenance of eco-friendly farms (6.00 ha) as well as one field conservatory of
germplasms of non-conventional crops (like vanilla, pepper, ekangi, spices and medicinal crops, etc.) at the RRS, New Alluvial Zone, Gayeshpur, Nadia, West Bengal. • Monitoring of an experimental tea garden yielding good quality leaves at the RRS, New Alluvial Zone, Gayeshpur, Nadia, West Bengal. ==Academics==