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The National Eligibility Test (NET) is a standardised test conducted at the national level by various agencies of the Government of India.It assesses candidates' eligibility for research fellowships, specifically the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and, in some cases, the Senior Research Fellowship (SRF).
2010: In March 2010, ICAR made its two flagship journals (Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences and Indian Journal of Animal Sciences) as open access journals. [13] 2011: ICAR scientists were the first in the world to sequence the pigeonpea genome. It was an indigenous effort by 31 scientists led by Nagendra Kumar Singh of NRCPB. The first ...
All the research management positions are filled through open competition. The director general of ICAR is the highest-ranked member of the ARS, who is ex officio secretary to the Government of India, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Ministry of Agriculture.
ICAR-CIAE was established on 15 February 1976 at Bhopal, with a view to provide a research platform for Agricultural Engineering. [4] The early mandate was to address the areas of farm machinery , post harvest technology and energy in agriculture.
The Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI) is a central research institute for plantation crops, headquartered in Kasargod, Kerala in India. It was established in 1970 [1] as one of the agricultural research institutes in the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Government of India.
In 1964, it was one of the few institutes with a computer, an IBM 1620 Model-II Electronic Computer. In 1970, it became a full institute under the ICAR and the name was changed to Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) on 1 January 1978. In 1977, a third generation computer Burroughs B-4700 system was installed in a new building.
Façade of the Old Hostel of the institute [13] Old Engineering Building of the institute, an antiquated water tank can be seen in the background. The institute was established by Dr. Sam Higginbottom, an English-born Presbyterian missionary in 1910 as a Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension of Ewing Christian College, Allahabad.
Research on tropical tuber crops is the primary mandate of CTCRI. Each division of CTCRI concentrate its research programmes on separate aspects of tuber crops. Crop improvement division focus its activities on collection germplasm of different tuber crops from different parts of the world and conserving it in field gene bank as well as in vitro.