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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 ...
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 ...
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council is the body in charge of the National Agricultural Research System and is located in Farmgate, Dhaka, Bangladesh. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The institute won the Independence Award in 2021 for its outstanding contribution to research and training.
The company won the award for the most innovative research in the non-plantation agriculture sector in 2018. The award is conferred by the Sri Lanka Council for Agricultural Research Policy, the apex body of agriculture research in Sri Lanka. The award ceremony was held at the Institute of Policy Studies. [9]
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 ...
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 ...