The department is concerned with irrigation and drainage related aspects of agricultural fields. Considering the limitations in the development of new water resources, the department aims to promote and use the water saving irrigation technologies such as micro-irrigation methods and precision and protective cultivation to the fullest precision. Extensive research on different related aspects of micro-irrigation methods since 1985 has resulted in remarkable increase in area under micro-irrigation and sprinkler irrigation systems over 12.00 lakh hectares in 10 districts of its jurisdiction. In addition to this, the department also concentrates on irrigation and fertigation management under protected cultivation technologies, IT applications in water management and development of basic knowledge bank viz. crop coefficient, yield response factors and spectral library for the stakeholders.

This department is associated with teaching for UG, PG and Ph.D. programmes through experienced and highly qualified staff members working on its regular establishment. The fundamentals associated with land and water engineering are taught in the UG programme leading to B.Tech. degree in Agricultural Engineering. The students are well exposed to theoretical and practical aspects through the lectures and practicals with advanced state of art teaching aids. The need based applied type of research programmes are carried out through B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D student projects, ad-hoc projects, Precision Farming Development Centre and RKVY Scheme. This department has released various recommendations related to crop irrigation scheduling, pressurized irrigation systems, groundwater utilization, precision farming techniques, protected cultivation (polyhouse and shadenet house), land reclamation, IT applications , RS and GIS applications and smart agriculture under the climatic change scenario.

In the recent past, the department has completed six different ad-hoc projects funded by state and national level funding agencies on micro irrigation, drainage, GIS and remote sensing, groundwater pollution, groundwater recharge and solar photovoltaic pumping system. The staff members are keen in publication of the research findings through the reputed research journals in the country and abroad. The currently working staff members of this department have published about 19 research papers in International Journals and 167 research papers the national Journals.

The department has entered into MoU with Jain Irrigation Systems Limited, Jalgaon, Approtech Porous Pipe Irrigation system, Ahmedabad and Delft Hydraulic Institute (DHI, Netherland), New Delhi. The MoU with the national giants in the field of RS and GIS like IIRS, Deharadun, RRSC, Nagpur and MRSAC, Nagpur are under progress. These MoUs shall bring out new dimensions for collaborative research in the field of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.