The University was established in 1974. President Fakruddin Ali Ahmed (1974-1977) laid the foundation stone. Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972-1977) inaugurated the Agricultural University in the newly built campus at Mohanpur, Nadia. An Architectural firm was entrusted to visualize and plan the project with development of all basic infrastructures. State PWD was entrusted to implement the construction. This process was in force may be around five years. Buildings like Administrative Building with later additions, Agricultural Building with vertical additions at a later date, Central Library Building, Communication Center, Undergraduate and Post Graduate Students Hostels, Horticulture Unit and few staff quarters and Vice Chancellor’s Residence. It is sad to see the Campus. There is no consistency in character of works done at a later date in the campus. It may be done by other authorities but still. It was really not expected.

Persons involved in the process among others were (mostly dead) S. B. Chattopadhya, Biswanath Chakraborty, Gopal Mukherjee, Prasanta Mukherjee and Dilip Roy, Pradip Bose, Sujit Sil, Subodth Nandy, Prabir Chakraborty, Indra Nath Mukherjee, Kalyan Das, Gautam Sen, Ranjit Mitra, Ratnamala Misra,

IISER established on 2006, under construction West Bengal University of Technology, University of Kalyani, University of Dairy Technology, Haringhata Dairy Farm and other big and small upcoming educational Institutions including privately conceived ones are all within striking distance. 

The area can be potentially developed as an Educational Hub of great National importance.