About Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC):

One of the main government agricultural research and development agencies in Nepal is Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC). Throughout the country, NARC has several national and regional research centers in all except two provinces, for which NARC is planning to establish offices in near future. Under NARC, there are 15 divisions, two national research institutes, 14 commodity programmes, four regional agriculture research centers, and 18 agriculture research stations.

To strengthen agricultural mechanization under NARC, Agricultural Engineering Division (AED) is a focal point of the Regional Network for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization. The main goal of this division is to enhance the livelihood/socioeconomic status of farmers with the increase in production and productivity in agriculture through the adoption of environment friendly, cost effective, efficient, and appropriate agricultural mechanization tools. AED has adopted some major strategies to conduct research on agricultural mechanization in Terai, agricultural mechanization in mid-hills, conservation agriculture, water management to enhance water productivity, etc. NARC has also recommended agricultural technologies like Zero/ minimum tillage technologies for wheat, rice, and lentil, Water management technology for early rice, wheat, and maize, Rice Weeder Rice seed dryer, etc.

With the beginning of the Roadmaps project in 2019, a new partnership with NARC National Machinery Training and Testing Centre has been established.