Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
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Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) is located in Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...

, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. Pakistan Agricultural Research Council is the apex agricultural research organization at the national level. Its main objective is to strengthen Pakistan's agricultural research system, comprising the federal and provincial components.

PARC has seven major research establishments in Pakistan conducting research according to the agro-ecological needs of various regions.
  • 1. National Agricultural Research Centre
    National Agricultural Research Centre
    National Agricultural Research Centre is a research institution of the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council based in Islamabad, Pakistan....

     (NARC), Islamabad
    Islamabad
    Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...

     http://www.parc.gov.pk/narc.html
  • 2. Southern Zone Agricultural Research Centre (SARC), Karachi
    Karachi
    Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

     http://www.parc.gov.pk/sarc.html
  • 3. Arid Zone Research Centre (AZRC), Quetta
    Quetta
    is the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Known as the "Fruit Garden of Pakistan" due to the diversity of its plant and animal wildlife, Quetta is home to the Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, which contains some of the rarest species of wildlife in the...

     http://www.parc.gov.pk/azrc/azrc.html
  • 4. National Tea Research Institute (NTRI), Mansehra
    Mansehra
    Mansehra city is located at in Mansehra District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is very near to Abbottabad city. It is a major stop for tourists on the Karakoram Highway which leads to China...

     http://www.parc.gov.pk/ntri.html
  • 5. Sugar crops Research Institute (SRI), Thatta
    Thatta
    Thatta is a historic town of 220,000 inhabitants in the Sindh province of Pakistan, near Lake Keenjhar, the largest freshwater lake in the country. Thatta's major monuments especially its necropolis at Makli are listed among the World Heritage Sites. The Shah Jahan Mosque is also listed...

     http://www.parc.gov.pk/sri.html
  • 6. Himalayan Agricultural Research Institute (HARI), Kaghan
    Kaghan
    Kaghan is a small town and union council of the Balakot Tehsil, in Mansehra District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It has a reputation as a place of great natural beauty....

     http://www.parc.gov.pk/hari.html
  • 7. Karakoram Agricultural Research Institute for Northern Areas, (KARINA), Gilgit
    Gilgit, Pakistan
    Gilgit is the capital city of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Gilgit City forms a tehsil of Gilgit, within Gilgit District. Its ancient name was Sargin, later to be known as Gilit, and it is still called Gilit or Sargin-Gilit by local people...

    http://www.parc.gov.pk/karina.html
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