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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is an autonomous body responsible for co-ordinating agricultural education and research in India. It reports to the Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About us )〕 The Union Minister of Agriculture serves as its president.〔(Organization )〕 The Committee to Advise on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education (Yashpal Committee, 2009) has recommended setting up of a constitutional body — the National Commission for Higher Education and Research — which would be a unified supreme body to regulate all branches of higher education including agricultural education.〔()〕 Presently, regulation of agricultural education is the mandate of ICAR, Veterinary Council of India (Veterinary sub-discipline) and Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (Forestry sub-discipline). The UPA government has included Yashpal Committee recommendations in its '100 days agenda'.〔(Sibal: Yash Pal panel report will be implemented in 100 days ), The Hindu, 25 June 2009〕 ==Milestones== *As of July, 2006 it has developed a vaccine against bird flu.The vaccine was developed at the (High Security Animal Disease Laboratory ), Bhopal, the only facility in the country to conduct tests for the H5N1 variant of bird flu.It was entrusted with the task of developing a vaccine by the ICAR after the Avian Influenza outbreak in February. The ICAR provided Rs. 8 crore for the purpose. *2009: In December 2009, it (announced ) that it was considering a policy to provide open access to its research. *2013: On 13th September 2013, it announced the Open Access (Policy ). *(ICAR ) scientists were the first in the world to sequence the pigeon pea genome. it was a purely indigenous effort by 31 scientists led by Nagendra Kumar Singh of (NRCPB ). The first draft of the sequence was published in (J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indian Council of Agricultural Research」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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