The Bengal Agricultural Institute (BAI) was established on December 11, 1938 by Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq, the then Chief Minister of undivided Bengal. At that time the name of this institution was “The Bengal Agricultural Institute” was renamed “East Pakistan Agricultural Institute” in 1947. After the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country in 1971, the name of the institute was spontaneously changed to the Bangladesh Agricultural Institute (BAI). Since its inception in 1938, the BAI had been functioning as a “Faculty of Agriculture” under Dhaka University. Meanwhile, with the establishment of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) at Mymensingh in 1961, its academic function was transferred to BAU in 1964 till its upgradation to Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in 2001.
The Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University was established for the expansion of higher agricultural education and committed to promote research in various fields of agricultural sciences and to offer extension services.