College of Agriculture, Badnapur dist. Jalna has been established as a constituent college of Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani. It is one among the six constituent agriculture colleges of Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani founded in the year 2000 vide resolution of government of Maharashtra, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Dairy and Fishery department bearing number MKV/1299/77/20A dated 29th March 2000 under a scheme entitled “Establishment of Agricultural College, Badnapur dist. Jalna”. It is geographically located in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra situated in between Aurangabad and Jalna cities at 9.50 latitude and 7.53 longitudes with an altitude of 523-meter rom MSL. The college is well connected with Air, road and railway facilities. It is 2.5 km away from Badnapur station on Manmad - Secunderabad route of south-central railway division.
Practically functioning of this college commenced from an academic year 2000-2001. The college housed earlier in the existing building of ARS, Badnapur with four lecture halls and one small multipurpose block. Initially the college offered undergraduate programme of B.Sc. (Agri.). up to 2013. Since from 2013 the college has been offering both under graduate B.Sc. (Hon.) Agriculture and the postgraduate degree M.Sc. (Agri./Hort.) started in the six disciplines viz. Agronomy, Agricultural Botany (Genetics and Plant Breeding), Agricultural Entomology, Plant Pathology, Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry and Fruit Science (Ref: MCAER/Education-1/2213/1082 Dated 04 June 2013 and MCAER/Education-1/87th Meeting/713/690/2013 dated 30.03.2013).
The College of Agriculture, Badnapur is funded and managed by Maharashtra Government through Vasantrao Naik, Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth located at Parbhani. Most of the students of this college are from rural and socially deprived sections. Without the existence of a PG facility at this college, at least 50 percent of students from this region would have been disconnected from their higher studies. Hence, college bears the moral obligation to provide quality higher education. The college has a clear vision, mission, and objectives for qualitative development in agricultural education as the top priority and thus functions towards its attainment. From the academic year 2017-18, the academic curricula of B.Sc. (Hon.) Agriculture academic programmes are revised as recommended by Vth Dean's committee report of ICAR.
