Dear Friends,
It gives me immense pleasure to introduce a new blog for our department for more interactive discussion and
knowledge sharing. Agricultural Engineering forms a unique branch that has been created from the elements of
key engineering branches, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and partially from Chemical Engineering that applies
Engineering Science and Technology to agricultural production and processing.
Agricultural Engineering as a professional engineering subject started at Iowa State University in 1914 [http://www.eng.iastate.edu/history/] and in India Agricultural Engineering started at Allahabad Agricultural Institute in 1942 under the guidance of Professor Mason Waugh.
Agricultural Engineering at MIT Bulandshahr started in 2008 and has faculty and research team that has member from IITs and Abroad Universities. The department has multi-dimensional framework with inter-disciplinary approach to benefit the practical grass-root level problem of the region related to agriculture.
This forum on blogger.com would certainly be a useful tool for discussion and interaction among the community.
Good Luck and happy blogging.
~Shashank~
The future Agricultural Engineers have to focus on the quantity and quality of food production to feed the ever increasing population on a shrinking agricultural land(Loosing most of the agricultural land to dwellings in towns,cities). India being the agriculturaly dominated country needs to play a vital role in this aspect in coming years. The Agricultural Engineers have to learn and impliment/execute the advanced mechanistion techniques and also to augument their ongoing R & D activities, which can help in quality aspects of crop production and the storage of agricultural products.
ReplyDeleteProf.Jagdish H Godihal
Director, MITB
http://bulandshahr.mit.asia
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Thank you Prof. Godihal for your useful and motivating comment. Yes the role of Agricultural Engineer is going to be more vital in terms of feeding the mammoth population with land being a limited resource. The use of technology with optimum parameters to balance the food-population-environment trio will become a challenging part for Agricultural Engineers and Agriculture community.
ReplyDeleteInfact the challenge has to be collectively tackle with multi-disciplinary approach with the use of state-of-art technology.
~Shashank~