The State Agricultural University, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV), the first of its kind in the State of West Bengal, came into existence in 1974 with prime objective to deal with the multifarious agricultural production constraints through generation of technologies and technical manpower resources. With the evolvement of HYV technology in mid-sixties agricultural production and productivity, particularly that of rice and wheat has started recording spectacular change in West Bengal from late sixties onward. This change in crop production scenario was, however, utterly absent in northern counterpart of the state. Agriculture in this part of the state is characterized by low productivity and almost at subsistence level with predominance of local crop varieties. Light textured soil with high rate of annual precipitation together with dearth of irrigation facilities and low use of fertilizer coupled with predominance of ethnology backward communities are identified as the principal constraints to bring about any production breakthrough in rice-wheat cropping system as witnessed in the southern counterpart of the state. Generation of improved technologies befitting agro-climatic and socio-economic characteristics of this region came to the fore as an important policy issue. Keeping this perspective in view the State Government established a satellite campus, comprising of one agricultural College and Regional Research Station at Pundibari of Cooch Behar district under Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya in 1979.