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Research Management Structure

Being the core activity of the Institute, research is organised into specialist subject divisions, which have evolved over time since inception from eight divisions to the present fourteen divisions, namely:

 Agronomy
 Chemistry
 Plant Physiology
 Plant Pathology
 Plant Breeding
 Entomology
 Biochemistry
 Agricultural Engineering Research
 Production Engineering
 Statistics & Computer
 Agricultural Economics
 Agricultural Extension
 On-farm Adaptive Research
 Tissue Culture & Biotechnology

For effective co-ordination of work in the various research divisions, research has now been organized on programme basis, as follows:

 Oil palm programme
 Coconut programme
 Raphia programme
 Date programme
 Shea Programme
 Product Development and utilization
 Tissue Culture & Biotechnology
 Economics and Extension programme

Each programme is headed by a Programme Leader, who may not necessarily be Head of a Research Division. The research programmes and divisions are further organised into departments as follows:

 Biology and Crop Production Department
 Technology Department
 Economics and Extension Department.

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