INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IRRI)

Dec. 30, 2018

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, during his visit to Varanasi, dedicated the campus of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), at Varanasi, to the nation.

About:

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) was established in 1960 with headquarters in Los Banos, Laguna in the Philippines.
It is an international agricultural research organization with the objective of ensuring environmental sustainability of rice farming.
IRRI is one of 15 agricultural research centres in the world that form the CGIAR (Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centres), a global partnership of organizations engaged in research on food security.
For its contribution to green revolution in 1960s, it was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Earlier, an MoU was signed between IRRI and Government of India for setting IRRI South Asia Regional Center (ISARC) at campus of National Seed Research and Training Center (NSRTC) in Varanasi.