Attention Users : 1. Last date for submission of online pre-proposal will be 24 June, 2024. 2. The listed priority areas have been updated.Please review and make changes accordingly in your application.
Foster research culture, enhance capability, promote awareness for effective agricultural solutions through strategic partnerships.
Utilize science and national talent to enhance problem-solving in agricultural research and knowledge development.
Accessible real-time data empowers all users with up-to-date information and insights.
Accessible real-time data democratically empowers all users with up-to-date information and insights.
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The Indian National Agricultural Research System (NARS) has to find solutions for the immediate problems of farming as well as keep its competence in technology development in the forefront to meet all continuously emerging anticipated and unanticipated problems. Basic and strategic research and applied research in the frontier areas of agricultural sciences are the ‘pacemaker’ of technology development. Fully realizing this need, the Government of India decided to establish a national fund for supporting basic and strategic research with the objective of building capacity for basic and strategic research for solving agricultural problems of immediate, long-term and anticipatory nature, building partnership of all required expertise available in all disciplines and institutions in all over the country and to make India a global leader in research for development.
A strong and sustainable platform that would help develop a scientific capacity and culture in the extended NARS capable of ensuring continuous flow of knowledge and frontier technology of the best and appropriate quality for solving problems in agriculture and also provide a source of science policy for agriculture. Commensurate with this requirement the name of the Fund was changed to ‘National Agricultural Science Fund’ during the XII Plan.
