Abstract: In China the construction goal of "digital agriculture" in agricultural field was put forward and the investment intensity in agricultural IT research was enhanced continuously for the purpose of adapting to the development of global informative process. Agricultural colleges take it as opportunity to extend their research fields actively; moreover, they infiltrate into the field in the aspect of scientific research and teaching, especially extend to this field in the aspect of cultivating postgraduate. The paper, combining the practical work of the postgraduate cultivation in the discipline of agricultural and automation in Shenyang Agricultural University in recent years, emphatically analyzes the question that how to keep the cultivating direction of agricultural electrification and automation for postgraduates in accordance with the goal-"digital agriculture" construction, discusses the whole frame about cultivating postgraduates in the discipline of agricultural electrification and automation in agricultural colleges presently, explains the specific content of every research direction, and presents a stratified and integrative way of the postgraduate cultivation.