The Department has a strength of 25 teaching staff members with 5 Professors, 2 Readers and 18 Lecturers. Out of them 13 members are having Ph.D degrees.

i) Ph.D:  The Department has so far produced 17 Ph.Ds. Out of which two scholars were full – time students, 7 were part-time candidates , 8 members were studied under external registration from other institutes like  State Agricultural Universities ( 4 candidates) and ICAR institutes (4 candidates).

ii) M.Sc. (Ag.): Totally, 102 Post-graduates have been produced by this Department till date and 8 more students are undergoing their M.Sc.(Ag.) programme. The students have been guided to take up research in the areas of Administration, Adoption Studies, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Gender Studies, Human Resource Management, Indigenous Knowledge System, Management, Marketing behaviour, Media Studies, Rural Development, Sustainability and Training.

iii) Thrust areas of the completed projects: The research projects which were completed by this Department concentrated on thrust areas such as:
1) Implications of environmental and sustainability issues for organization and practice of agricultural extension
2) Participatory technology development and indigenous technical knowledge in sugarcane development
3) Village adoption for agricultural development
4) Role of farm women in diffusion and adoption of eco-friendly technology
5) Training  needs of farm women in eco-friendly technologies

iv) Degrees Awarded:

The Department of Agricultural Extension organized an Indo-British Workshop on Extension for Sustainable Agriculture which was funded by the ODA, UK in January, 1996.

• The Department of Agricultural Extension organizes Farmers’ Day every year. Around 500 farmers from the Cuddalore , Nagapattinam and neighbouring  Districts are being benefited. They are exposed to different Agricultural and Horticultural Technologies through demonstrations, exhibitions and discussions. Some important farm inputs are also distributed to the farmers during the programme.
• The Department has been publishing a quarterly farm magazine called Velaan Kathir for the benefit of the farmers, extension workers and students since January 2000 and 34 issues have been published so far.
•  The Department of Agricultural Extension is organizing Village Stay Programme under Rural Agricultural Work Experience (RAWE) for the IV B.Sc. (Ag.) / (Hort.) students in the villages of Cuddalore and Nagapattinam Districts.
• A training programme on Participatory Rural Action to Remedy Problem Soil Situation was organized for the Cane Officers of the M.R.K. Co-operative Sugar Mills Ltd., Sethiathope in 2003.
• The Department has conducted Skill Training on Floriculture for the women SHGs in 2003.
• The Department also conducted a Management Training Programme for Sales Representatives of the SHGs in collaboration with the District Rural Development Agency, Cuddalore and Vridachalam Panchayat Uniion in 2004.
• A training programme on Value Added Products of Coconut was organized in collaboration with the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (ICAR), Kasaragod, Kerala in 2004.
• Every year, farmers from the Union Territory of Puducherry are brought to the Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University by the Farmers Training Centre, Puducherry for visit. Field Trips are arranged by the Department of Agricultural Extension during their visit. So far more than 1000 farmers of the Puducherry were benefited.

The Department is having a very good library with research journals of National and International importance. It is having a wide range of collection of text books, reprints, popular magazines of both National and International, Educational CDs and books for competitive examinations. The library is also having internet browsing facility which is highly useful for the scholars of this Department not only for their research purposes but also for  higher studies and employment opportunities abroad.

The Department is having a well equipped Audio-visual Laboratory for the Under-graduate and Post-graduate students. The laboratory is having Audio-visual aids like Automatic and manual Slide Projectors, OHPs, Direct Projector, 29” Television, LCD, VHS camera, Digital camera, Display screen, Flannel board, Audio and video cassettes, Charts, Flip boards, CD ROMs and internet facility.