COLLABORATORS / FUNDING AGENCIES
INDUSTRIAL
Hindustan Lever Ltd. purchased sunflower hybrid NSH-7 in the 1980s
Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd. & NARI signed a 5 year contract to breed sweet sorghum for alcohol in 2000s. They also bought NARI’s alcohol stove & lantern patents
Bombay Oil Industries (Marico Ltd.) funded a project on improved safflower hybrids/varieties & also licensed the variety NARI-57 in 2010s
Funding was also given by:
Bajaj Group • Kirloskar Group • ICICI Ltd. • Cummins India Ltd.
Indian Cotton Mills Federation • Nimbkar Seeds Pvt. Ltd.
INSTITUTIONAL
INDIA
Department of Science and Technology (DST) • Department of Biotechnology (DBT) • The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) • Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) • Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) • Maharashtra Council of Science and Technology (MACOST) • Advisory Board on Energy (ABE) • Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
AUSTRALIA
University of New England (UNE) • The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) • University of Melbourne • Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
U.S.A.
Rockefeller Foundation • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Texas A&M University (TAMU) • E&Co.
EUROPE
International Foundation for Science (IFS) • Danida Forest Seed Centre
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)