[4] The early mandate was to address the areas of farm machinery, post harvest technology and energy in agriculture.

The centre has a Prototype Production Workshop, equipped with machining, welding, grinding, press work, cutting and shearing, tool and die making and heat treatment facilities.

It maintains the Information and Communication activities of the Institute through modern infrastructure and home developed and outsourced software.

The centre has a declared mandate to: The centre is engaged in the distribution of un-priced and priced publications, the sale of seedling and planting materials, bio-fertilizers, processed farm products, soy food products, fish feed and Video Cassettes/CDs, providing information through Agricultural Equipment Display Center, exhibitions and manufacturers' meet and the collection of feedback and its transmission.

The National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) was inaugurated on 2 February 2011 CIAE as one of core institutes with Strategic Research, Technology Demonstration, Capacity Building and Sponsored/ Competitive Grants were the main elements of the project.

ICAR has placed a National Fellow Project at CIAE on the subject, "Development of Soy and Multigrain based nutritionally balanced functional foods for children".

The main objectives of the project are: Optimisation of ingredients and process parameters for preparation of ready to eat mixes, snacks specially designed for children.

[9] Research Publications The twenty largest countries by agricultural output at market exchange rates in 2014, according to the IMF and CIA World Factbook