To fulfill the Government of India's objectives as expected in India's National Policy on Agriculture (NPA), the ICAR has initiated National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP), which accords high priority to generation and transfer of agricultural technologies, and suggests innovations in the technology system. The overall objective of the NAIP is to facilitate an accelerated and sustainable transformation of the Indian agriculture so that it can support poverty alleviation and income generation through collaborative development and application of agricultural innovations by the public organizations in partnership with farmers' groups, the private sector and other stakeholders. The specific objectives envisaged are:
a) To build the critical capacity of the ICAR as a catalyzing agent for management of change of the Indian NARS
(component 1).
b) To promote production to consumption systems research in priority areas/themes to enhance productivity, nutrition, profitability, income and employment (component 2).
c) To improve livelihood security of rural people living in selected disadvantaged regions through innovation systems led by technology and encompassing the wider process of social and economic change covering all stakeholders (component 3).
d) To build capacity and undertake basic and strategic research in strategic areas to meet technology development challenges in the immediate and predictable future (component 4).The present sub-project entitled " Characterisation and differentiation of embryonic and spermatogonial stem cells in cattle and buffaloes" aims to provide the genetic enhancement of these animals through stem cell application. |
