The Department of Agricultural Process Engineering is engaged in teaching, research and extension activities primarily in the field of Agricultural Process Engineering. However in order to cater to the changing scenario of Indian agricultural, UG programme was started. In order to prepare trained manpower, in the light of global competition due to WTO, GATT etc., the UG curriculum of this department has been further reviewed & upgraded to bring about uniformity of the same throughout the country. As such the name of Department has been changed to Processing & Food Engineering as per the recommendations of  V dean committee meeting.