1) Information about the department
1.1 About
Agricultural Engineering Department plays a significant role in propagating agricultural mechanization among farmers in Erode District to carry out various farming operations, starting from land bed preparation, sowing, crop protection, harvesting, post-harvest technology management and value addition in time.
Agricultural Engineering Department assists farmers in soil conservation, creation of new irrigation sources and for adoption of renewable energy technologies for pumping water for irrigation.
1.2 Vision
- Self Sufficient in Farm Power
- Reinvigorated Farm Youth
- Equitable Water Sharing
- Increased Irrigation and Cropping Intensity
- Solar Energy for all farming operations
- Increased income of Farmers through Post Harvest Management
1.3 Mission
- Establishing Custom Hiring Centres apart from support to individual Farmers
- Entrepreneurial Support to Farm Youth
- Micro Irrigation System, Water Harvesting Structures derived from Village Water Management strategy
- Soil and Water Conservation focused on Rain fed Farming
- Promotion of Solar Energy in Agriculture.
Promotion of Post-Harvest Management in Agriculture
1.4 Administrative Setup
Chief Engineer (AE), Chennai, Superintending Engineer (AE), Coimbatore, Executive Engineer (AE), Erode, Assistant Executive Engineer (AE), Assistant Engineer/ Junior Engineer.
1.5 Organization Information
District Head: Executive Engineer (AE), Erode
Sub Division I: Assistant Executive Engineer, Erode
Sub Division II: Assistant Executive Engineer, Gobi
Block Level Incharge: Assistant Engineer / Junior Engineer
2) Schemes
Agricultural Engineering Department is systematically implementing the following schemes to reach such efforts to the farmers without any hindrance.
1) Hiring of Agricultural Engineering Department owned machinery
2) Agricultural Mechanization
3) Value addition of agricultural produce
4) Agriculture through Solar Energy
5) Soil and Water Conservation
6) Water Management
7) Strengthening of Infrastructure
3) Web Links/ URL
Genesis and Formation of Agricultural Engineering in Tamil Nadu