THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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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 Field Crops, Horticulture,
Plant Protection, Soils and Water Use, Animal Production, Agricultural Economics,
Biometry and Information Technology, 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.
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 Field Crops, Horticulture,
Plant Protection, Soils and Water Use, Animal Production, Agricultural Economics,
Biometry and Information Technology, 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.