GENERAL INFORMATION

The institute undertakes applied and adaptive research within the wider domain of plant and animal production. It evaluates under local conditions, resent scientific and technological findings owning at maximizing the utilization of resources and improve animal and plant production. Important disciplines of research, such as Animal Production, Arboculture and Viticulture, Horticulture/Floriculture, Plant Breeding, Plant Protection, Soils, Water use and Environment, Statistics and Agricultural Economics, coexist under the same roof ensuring cooperation among scientists of different disciplines and efficient use of facilities. It also has a central chemistry laboratory providing analytical backup services and pursuing experimental work on pesticide residue analysis. The institute has well equipped specialized laboratories, including a radioisotope laboratory, cold storage facilities, a gene bank, a herbarium, an insectary, glasshouses and a library which receives most of the leading agricultural journals. The institute has an experimental farm, near HQs, where the livestock (cattle, sheep, goats) is kept, and outstations at Akhelia and Zyghi for citrus, vegetables and field crops, and at Saittas for deciduous fruits. Extensive experimentation is also undertaken in farmers' fields.

The institute's work is published in international journals or in its own publications series (annual review, technical bulletin, miscellaneous reports, agricultural economics report) in english. The institute is the national AGRIS centre, collecting, cataloguing and indexing the agricultural literature published in Cyprus, and is also the national CARIS centre collating information on on-going research. All this information is supplied to FAO for inclusion in the global databases of the AGRIS and CARIS systems.