 Infrastructure The Institute is housed in spacious buildings (total covered area is 2000 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 pathology 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 5,500 books and subscribes to about 55 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 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 and Europe come periodically to do their internship in agriculture and rural development. The institute welcomes such interns.
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 or are funding projects at the Institute. NARI also undertakes sponsored research from private companies and organizations in all areas of agriculture, renewable energy and animal husbandry.
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