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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 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is an international organisation which conducts agricultural research for rural development, headquartered in Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, with several regional centres (Bamako (Mali), Nairobi (Kenya)) and research stations (Niamey (Niger), Kano (Nigeria), Lilongwe (Malawi), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia ...
The Agricultural Research Service Scientists' Forum (ARSSF) of the scientists recruited by the ICAR were registered as a society on 12 August 1980 at Shillong and on 22 November 1995, it was formally recognized by the ICAR. [5]
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibers (ICAR-CRIJAF), established in 1953 as Jute Agricultural Research Institute (JARI), is the only research institute on jute & allied fibres crops in India and is a constituent unit of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), an Autonomous Body under Department of Agricultural Research & Education (DARE) under Ministry of ...
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.
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.
The ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (also called ICAR-CPRI Shimla) is India's public non-profit potato research institute located in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is an autonomous institute under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research , Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare of the 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.