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Research Centers are responsible for undertaking research in various agro-ecologies, commodities and disciplines. The Executive Officer of the research centers is the center Director who is answerable to DDG and carries out responsibilities assigned to them.

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National Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center

National Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center

History: TheNational Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, is one of the recently established research centers of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. Before the center wasupgradedtoa full-fledged research center level, it was a National Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory (NABL...

Ambo Research Center

Ambo Research Center

History: The center was established by a bilateral agreement among the Ethiopian and the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) government in 1977 by the name of pathological laboratory. During this time, the research focuswas only on plant diseases. After some years of its establishment Ag...

Assosa Research Center

Assosa Research Center

History: Major deriving force for the establishment of the Asosa Agricultural Research Center was the serious famine incident in 1986. The Center, originally known as AsosaResearch Stationcarried out research activities under the close supervision of Bako Research Center.The station was put up on an...

Bako Maize Research Center

Bako Maize Research Center

History: Bako Maize Research Center is one of the oldest research centers in the country. It was established in 1964 with an agreement signed between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of Ethiopia. The Center is located at 8 km from the nearest District’s town, Bako. Since 1991, the ...

Chiro Sorghum Research and Training Center

Chiro Sorghum Research and Training Center

History: ChiroSorghum Research and Training Center is arecentlyestablished federal research center in eastern part of Ethiopia,in Chiro town from where the Center name is derived from. The Center commenced its research and training activities on May 2014 with an ultimate aspiration to become a cente...

Debre Zeit Research Center

Debre Zeit Research Center

History: Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Center was established in 1953 under the then Alemaya Agricultural College, now Harmaya University.The Center was then transferred to the then Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organizationin 1984.Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Center (DZARC) is mandated for...

Fogera Rice Research and Training Center

Fogera Rice Research and Training Center

History: Fogera Rice Research and Training Center (FRRTC) is a recently established research center on August 7, 2013 under EIAR to conduct research and provide training mainly on rice.The Center is also engaged in conducting research on other crops produced within the rice cropping system. The Cent...

Holetta Research Center

Holetta Research Center

History: Holeta Agricultural Research Center (HARC) was established in 1966 under the Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR), now EIAR. The Center is located in Holeta town and has two sub-centers and two testing sites. Ginchi and Ada Berga subcenters focus on Vertisol and dairy research, respecti...

Jimma Research Center

Jimma Research Center

History: Jimma Agricultural Research Center was established in 1967. Currently,the Center has two subcenters: Gera and Haru and three testing sites, i.e., Mettu, Mugi and Agaro. The Center is mandated to coordinate coffee research nationally. Moreover, nationally, integrated soil fertility and crop ...

Kulumsa Research Center

Kulumsa Research Center

History: Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center was established in 1966 by government of Ethiopia and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). The research Center is mandated to wheat, malt barley and highland pulse crops research nationally and serves as Wheat Center of Excellence for Eas...

Mehoni Research Center

Mehoni Research Center

History: Mehoni Agricultural Research Center was established on March 2004 to conduct research on lowland high-value tree crops and horticulture crops.The Center conducts its research activities on the Fachagama Research Site, located in Raya Azebo District of the Tigray Region. The Center has also ...

Melkassa Research Center

Melkassa Research Center

History: Melkassa Agricultural Research Center (MARC) was established in 1969 as a national horticulture research center with staff members of five personneland land area not exceeding five hectares. Over the years, other important research programs and commodities have been included in the research...

Pawe Research Center

Pawe Research Center

History: The Center came in to existence on 1986; a year after Ethiopia was smashed by the worst famine in the living memories that claimed breathes of millions of its citizens, succeeding the resettlement of the highly-affected people from the northern and southern part of the country to deliver im...

Fisheries and Aquatic Life Research Center

Fisheries and Aquatic Life Research Center

History: The history of research on fisheries and limnology dates back to the 1930, with the Italian invasion. Later on, some foreign scholars from AAU also made short-term limnological studies on Ethiopian lakes in 1960s and 70s. The Lake Fisheries Development Project (LFDP) which was initiated by ...

Tepi Spices Research Center

Tepi Spices Research Center

History: Tepi Spices Research Center (TNSRC) is one of the centers of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). It used to be one of the testing sites under Jimma Research Center of the EIAR since 1973 for coffee and spices research, representing hot to warm humid lowland agro-ecologi...

Werer Research Center

Werer Research Center

History: Werer Agricultural Research Center, the then called Melka Werer Agricultural Research Station, was established in 1964 by the Research Department found under the Ministry of Agriculture. It was established to conduct research on cotton crop with the objective of giving support to the Cotton...

Wendo Genet Research Center

Wendo Genet Research Center

History: Wendo Genet Agricultural Research Center was established in 2009 to conduct agricultural research mainly on Aromatic, medicinal and bio-fuel plants. before this year, the Center was a perfume factory owned by Belgium and France citizens who were engaged in extracting and producing perfumes ...

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