ICAR-NDRI Best Agriculture University in India

KARNAL, Haryana — The ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal has been ranked first among 72 Agricultural Universities of India including State Agricultural Universities,  Deemed Universities of ICAR and Central Universities with agriculture faculty by the Education Division of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi.

This award was declared by the ICAR and presented by Honourable Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala, Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

Director of NDRI, Dr Manmohan Singh Chauhan, said it was a great moment of pride for the Institute. He added that NDRI has achieved a landmark success for developing several technologies like in vitro fertilization, cloning, transgenics, manufacture of a variety of nutritious high quality indigenous dairy products, producing tools for detection of various milk adulterants and also for providing high quality manpower for various dairy development and extension programmes in the country.

Dr Chauhan also said that NDRI is continuously working for the development of all indigenous dairy breeds and helping our farmers to become self-sufficient in the area of dairy farming. Dr Chauhan congratulated all the staff members of the Institute for their commitment and tremendous efforts in achieving this landmark.

About National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) 

NDRI was originally started as the Imperial Institute of Animal Husbandry and Dairying in 1923 at Bangalore. It was expanded and renamed as Imperial Dairy Institute in 1936 and was known as NDRI after independence in 1947. Subsequently in 1955, NDRI headquarter was shifted to Karnal. Facilities at Bangalore were retained to function as a Regional Station. NDRI, as the country’s premier dairy research institution, has developed considerable expertise over the last five decades in different areas of dairy production, processing, management and HRD. Information generated and the services offered have contributed to the growth of the Indian dairy industry as a whole and well-being of millions of milk producers and consumers of milk and milk products. Realising the challenging need of global dairy trade, NDRI is continuously working to develop its R&D and HRD programmes to better serve the nation in terms of food security, employment generation, poverty alleviation and economic prosperity.

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Source: NDRI Press Release, December 2020.