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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 ...
The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), commonly known as the Pusa Institute, [2] is India's national institute for agricultural research, education and extension. The name Pusa Institute is derived from the fact that the institute was originally located in Pusa , Bihar as the Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research in 1911.
The institute is affiliated with and is located in the campus of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, a deemed university, at Pusa in New Delhi. The institute includes sections that specialize in statistical techniques for animal and plant breeding, bioinformatics, sampling, experimental design, modelling and forecasting.
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.
Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) Agro-chemicals 2005-2006: 2005–06 B. Mishra Directorate of Wheat Research (DWR) Rice and wheat , , 2005–06 I. Karunasagar Karnataka Veterinary, Animal & Fisheries Sciences University (KVAFSU) Fish and shrimp; food safety 2005–06 Nagendra Kumar Singh: NRCPB, IARI New Delhi
The Indian Institute of Soil Science (acronym IISS [1]) is an autonomous institute for higher learning, established under the umbrella of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for advanced research in the field of soil sciences.
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.
Half a year later he joined Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in New Delhi in October 1954 as an assistant cytogeneticist. [41] Swaminathan was critical of India importing food grains when seventy percent of India was dependent on agriculture. Further drought and famine-like situations were developing in the country. [43]