ICAR Transforming Indian Agricultural

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR),  erstwhile the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, is an autonomous organization under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India.

ICAR was established on 16 July 1929 as a Registered Society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 on the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Agriculture.

The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is the President of the ICAR, and the Union Minister of State of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying is the Senior Vice President and the Minister of State of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare dealing with the ICAR as the Vice President. The Director General, Principal Executive Officer of the ICAR, is also Secretary to the Government of India in the DARE.

With 113 ICAR institutions (72 Research Institutes, 6 National Bureaux, 23 Project Directorates and Agricultural Technology Application Research Institutes, 12 National Research Centres), 82 All India Coordinated Research Projects & Network Research Projects and 74 Agricultural Universities (63 State Agricultural Universities, 4 Deemed Universities, 3 Central Agricultural Universities, and 4 Central Universities with agricultural faculty) spread across the country, this is one of the largest national agricultural research systems in the world.