The University is mandated to tone up the quality and standard of higher agriculture education and to produce first rate agriculturists, agricultural scientists and technologists for shouldering the responsibilities of agricultural development of the country.

The working missions of the University are :

  i)     to provide higher learning in all branches of agricultural sciences as a profession-based education;

ii)         to conduct basic and applied research on various aspects of agricultural problems faced by farmers, change-agents and agro-industrialists with a view to recommending possible measures in dealing with them;

iii)         to organize and supervise extension and related nation-building activities at different levels and in different forms;

iv)       to provide training for personnel of different government and non-government organizations and also for farmers and farm-leaders on various aspects of agriculture and rural development; and

v)         to provide facilities for bilateral and multilateral cooperation and collaboration with institutes or organizations within and outside Bangladesh. (See, Flow-chart: 1).