The Department of Nematology at Anand campus of Gujarat Agricultural University started in 1977-78 with one post each of Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor.  Late Prof. H. M. Shah was the first Professor of Nematology who initiated the work on Nematology. Thereafter array of distinguished professors viz., Dr. D. J. Patel, Dr. N. A. Thakar, Dr. V. A. Patel, Dr. R. V. Vyas, Dr. B. N. Patel, Dr. J. G. Patel, Dr. B. A. Patel and Dr. A. B. Brahmabhatt adorned this chair. In 1977, All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Plant Parasitic Nematodes with Integrated Approach for Their Control was sanctioned on 7^th April at Anand campus of Gujarat Agricultural University and the project started functioning on 8^th February, 1978.

At present, Dr. R. K. Thumar is holding the current position as Head of the Department and members include 1 Associate Professor, 1 Assistant Professor, 1 Assistant Nematologist and 1 Agril. assistant. The department is fully engaged in imparting quality education to the P. G and U. G. students in the form of teaching, research and extension. Besides this, research on management of nematode diseases in different economic crops grown in the state and extension activities are conducted to appraise the farmers about the nematode problems in the crops and their remedies. From 1977 to till date, main focus of research is to identify several nematode problems, mainly root-knot, reniform, cyst, stunt, burrowing and many other parasitic nematodes on various crops and evolved their economic management strategies for the farming community. Recently, demand driven research as initiated by GoI/GoG on Natural Farming and accordingly the department made one recommendation based on use of different natural inputs for nematode management in tomato.