 Improved technologies befitting the agro-climatic and socio-economic characteristics of this region is an important issue.Keeping this perspective in view, the state government established a satellite campus of the State Agriculture University, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya at Pundibari, in Cooch Behar district in 1979.Since then the Indian Council of Agricultural Research has accredited the campus and extended development support.