Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Coimbatore is one of the constituent colleges of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. This is the first college started in South India for providing agricultural engineering education. The first batch of students was admitted in July 1972. Masters degree programmes in Agricultural Engineering were started during the year 1977 and Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering was started in the year 1987, B.Tech (Food Process Engineering) was started in the year 1998 and B.Tech. (Energy and Environmental Engineering) was started as first of its kind in the entire country in 2004.
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