{"id":23243,"date":"2024-05-10T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T05:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23243"},"modified":"2025-04-07T01:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:42:58","slug":"indian-agricultural-research-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-agricultural-research-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI):\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>India\u2019s largest<\/strong> and <strong>foremost Institute<\/strong> in the field of <strong>research andhigher education,<\/strong> and training <strong>in agricultural sciences<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Institute is <strong>situated in Delhi<\/strong> and is <strong>administered by<\/strong> the <strong>Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>History<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>IARI, <strong>popularly known as Pusa Institute<\/strong>, <strong>began in 1905 at Pusa (Bihar<\/strong>) with the generous <strong>grant of 30,000 pounds from<\/strong> an American philanthropist, <strong>Henry Phipps.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The institute was <strong>then known as the Agricultural Research Institute<\/strong> (ARI), which functioned with five departments, namely Agriculture, Cattle Breeding, Chemistry, Economic Botany and Mycology. Bacteriology unit was added in 1907.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The name of ARI was changed to Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research in 1911, and in <strong>1919 it was renamed Imperial Agricultural Research Institute<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Following a devastating earthquake on<\/strong> 15th January, <strong>1934<\/strong>, the institute was <strong>shifted to Delhi<\/strong> on 29th July 1936.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Post independence<\/strong>, the institute has been <strong>renamed IARI.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandate of IARI:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic, strategic, and anticipatory research in<\/strong> field and <strong>horticultural crops<\/strong> for enhanced productivity and quality.<\/li>\n<li>Research in frontier areas to <strong>develop resource use efficient integrated crop management technologie<\/strong>s for sustainable agricultural production systems.<\/li>\n<li>Serve as <strong>centre for academic excellence<\/strong> in the areas of post-graduate and human resources development <strong>in agricultural science.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Provide <strong>national leadership in agricultural research<\/strong>, education, extension, and technology assessment and transfer by <strong>developing new concepts<\/strong> and approaches and <strong>serving as a national referral point for quality and standards.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It attained the status of a <strong>Deemed University<\/strong> in the year 1958.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The IARI was <strong>responsible for<\/strong> the <strong>research leading to the &#8220;Green Revolution<\/strong> in India&#8221; of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)?<\/h3>\n<p>ICAR is the apex body for coordinating, guiding, and managing research and education in agriculture in the entire country under the aegis of DARE, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/policy\/economy-govt-introduces-high-yielding-amp-disease-resistance-wheat-variety-3481576\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Govt introduces high yielding &amp; disease resistance wheat variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Agricultural Research Institute is India\u2019s largest and foremost Institute in the field of research andhigher education, and training in agricultural sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}