Authors:
Gert-Jan Stads, Kalpana Sastry, Ganesh Kumar, Tara Kondisetty, and Lang Gao
Year:
2016
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute and National Academy of Agricultural Research Management.
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India has one of the largest and most well-coordinated agricultural research systems in the world. Research is primarily structured around agencies under the ICAR umbrella at the federal level and within agricultural universities at the state level.
Notwithstanding the fact that India’s agricultural research expenditures nearly doubled between 2000 and 2014 (in inflation-adjusted terms), agricultural research spending as a share of AgGDP fell slightly during this timeframe, from 0.34 to 0.30 percent.
India’s total number of agricultural researchers declined gradually between 2000 and 2009, which can largely be attributed to stagnating recruitment at the country’s universities. Research capacity has rebounded since, primarily due to the establishment of a number of new universities and colleges.