Infrastructure
The Institute is housed in spacious buildings (total covered area is about 3500 m2 ) and has about 40 hectares of farm with year-round irrigation facilities for research purposes. NARI also has well-equipped laboratories with sophisticated analytical instruments and computational facilities, a full-fledged workshop, an animal husbandry laboratory, an A Class Weather station and an excellent chemistry laboratory. Most of the hardware is fabricated in the workshop. The Institute has a small, though well-stocked library with about 6000 books and subscribes to about 60 periodicals (both national and international) in the areas of agriculture, energy and animal husbandry.
The Institute is recognized by Shivaji University, Kolhapur for the purpose of granting Ph.D. in Energy Studies. The Institute actively collaborates with researchers in other organizations and institutes such as NFCL, NCL, BARC, TIFR and BAIF, UF (USA) and UNE (Australia). Recently NARI has signed an MOU with University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, USA to provide internship to students in engineering. Students from US, Europe and Canada come periodically to do their internship in agriculture and rural development. The institute welcomes such interns.
The Institute has staff of about 40 out of which 15 are research personnel including 5 Ph.Ds in the areas of agriculture and engineering.
Most of the funding for NARI in the past came from sponsored research projects from Govt. of India agencies like MNES, ICAR, CAPART, ICICI, DSIR, KVIC etc. Recently, international agencies like United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rockefeller Foundation, European Economic Commission (EEC), ACIAR (Australia) , E&Co ( New Jersey) have funded projects at the Institute. NARI also undertakes sponsored research from private companies and organizations in selected areas of agriculture, renewable energy and animal husbandry.
