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Minister of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives [23] R. M. Dharmadasa Banda: United National Party: 1990: Minister of Agriculture & Research [24] D. M. Jayaratne: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: D. B. Wijetunga: Minister of Agriculture, Land and Forestry Conservation [25] [26] 19 October 2000: 14 September 2001: Chandrika Kumaratunga ...
CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) is a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in research about food security. [1] CGIAR research aims to reduce rural poverty, increase food security, improve human health and nutrition, and sustainable management of natural resources.
The SAARC Agriculture Centre has now been given an enhanced mandate for supporting the member states to address common regional challenges of the food and agriculture sector by strengthening agricultural research and extension systems, knowledge management, and appropriate agricultural policies and program development.
The National Research Council of Sri Lanka (NRC) is a funding agency in Sri Lanka, providing financial assistance to public sector scientists. It was established as a statutory body through an act of parliament in 2016 by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The NRC aims to foster and facilitate research in the ...
The university's administration returned to Thirunelvely in 1996 after the military had recaptured most of the peninsula including Jaffna city. [14] The escalation of hostilities in the Vanni in 1996 caused severe disruption to the Faculty of Agriculture which was forced to move several times. [15] The University Council decided to move the ...
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Kerala, under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. CMFRI; National Centre for Ocean Information Services in Pragathi Nagar, Hyderabad. ESSO-INCOIS; National Institute of Oceanography in Goa. National Atmospheric Research Laboratory in Andhra, Pradesh. NARL; National Centre for Polar ...
These samples were combined with a collection at the Botany School of the University of Cambridge and maintained on behalf of the Agricultural Research Council. When the initial curator and plant pathology pioneer Dr Walter John Dowson [ 2 ] retired in 1956 the collection was moved to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), at ...
The only mandated international agricultural research organization is the CGIAR The CGIAR Fund supports 15 international agricultural research centers such as the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International ...