The Department came into existence, as Statistical Section, before the establishment of the University at College of Agriculture, Jabalpur. It got merged with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Statistics in the year 1964. It was constituted in the year 1966 with the formulation of the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering. It came into existence in September 1968 as the Department in the Faculty of Basic Sciences and Humanities; then to Faculty of Agricultural Engineering in 1972, and to the Faculty of Agriculture in 1981. Master degree program was started in the year 1983 with an intake capacity of 16 at the State level.