Tamil Nadu Agricultural University is one of the leading agrotechnology providers of India and its graduates are recognized throughout the world. Though the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) came into being on June 1, 1971, it had its genesis from establishment of an Agricultural School at Saidapet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu as early as 1868, which was later relocated at Coimbatore. TNAU, in realizing its mission of 'Uplifting economic conditions of farming community and helping the associated agribusinesses' continued to perform the triple functions of education, research and extension in Agriculture and in the process, it won the "Best Agricultural University Award" for the year 1998 from ICAR.

The University is offering Eight Undergraduate Degree Programmes and Twenty one Postgraduate Degree Programs in the faculties of Agriculture, Horticulture, Agricultural Engineering, Forestry and Home Science with 10 Colleges distributed in seven campuses all over Tamil Nadu. Besides, the university has 32 Research Stations for agrotechnology development. These research stations concentrate on the location specific researches on Agricultural and Horticultural crops so as to tackle the problems confronted by the farmers of the concerned zones in particular and the state in general.

At present, 445 research schemes/projects are in operation funded by GOI, ICAR, Private agencies, International Agencies, Govt. of Tamil Nadu and other agencies.