Director's Message

Dear Readers,

The ICAR-NIANP was founded on 24th November 1995 as a discipline oriented research Institute under the aegis of ICAR, New Delhi. The main focus of the institute is to improve farm animal productivity through Nutrition and Physiology interventions with an outreach to farmers for enhancing their farm income. The founders of this Institute and all the previous Directors have ably guided this organization to achieve newer heights in research and development.

Over the past 28 years, the Institute has progressed very well in terms of research output, publications and creating quality human resource. The Institute has developed and commercialized many technologies to improve livestock productivity in terms of nutrient balancing, improving fertility and environment protection. Also, many patents were filed and eight have been granted. The scientists are publishing their research findings in high quality journals. Currently, the Institute is focusing on research in the areas of nutrient bioavailability, novel feed resources, precision nutrition, sex skewing, semen quality improvement and mitigation of green house gas (CHG) emission.

Also, the Institute is capitalizing its effort on nutrigenomics, stem cell research and bioinformatics. Regular trainings and workshops are being conducted for academicians, field officers and farmers. The ICAR-NIANP is having Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with many reputed National and International Organizations for collaborative research. Presently, as a part of IVRI Education Bangalore hub, Masters and Ph D students have joined our Institute. The aim of this Institute is to maintain the global standards of research, education, capacity building and to be a reputed resource center for Animal Nutrition, Animal Physiology, Animal Reproduction and allied sciences.