Institute for Agricultural Research,
Ahmadu Bello University,
P.M.B 1044
Zaria.
The Programme is to significantly assess the suitability of some mandate crops of IAR for further industrial processing.
Legumes And Oil Seed Research
Research in horticultural crops has been part of Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) activities from the 1970s until 1987, the crop improvement aspect or research was withdrawn and, together with all germplasm material the Institute had, transferred to NIHORT. In 2013,
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The Programme is one of the largest research Programmes in the Institute that is responsible for development and release of cereal crop varieties of high grain yielding abilities and nutritional qualities, resistance to diseases and pests, tolerance to drought and responsiveness to good agronomic management and post-harvest technological practices.
The Programme has as its broad objective the development and evaluation of appropriate technologies for production and post-harvest operations of Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) mandate crops in North West Agro-Ecological Zone.
The Cotton research Programme carries out its activities by a multi-disciplinary team including plant breeders, plant physiologists, agronomists, crop protectionists, soil scientists, agricultural economists and rural sociologists.
The Programme focuses on identification of farming constraints, analysis of farming systems and the development/testing of appropriate technologies for IAR mandate crops.
What is now known as Irrigation Research Programme (IRP) was the Soil and Water Management Section (SWMS) of the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) resident in the Department is Soil Science Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in the 1970s
