Director General

Dr Abdul Raouf 

Agricultural research is a continuous process of developing new ideas and then prove it scientifically in the field and laboratories and bring it into the use for betterment in the life of farmers. Sustainability in increasing agricultural yield and productivity which takes into account economical, social and environmental aspects, adapting and building resilience to the changing climate. Improvement of food, industrial and horticultural crops by evolving high yielding varieties, development of improved packages of production and protection technologies for realizing potential of these varieties and contributing to rejuvenate green revolution are the main objectives of Agricultural Research System, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Agricultural Research has completed successfully over 100 years of services of the farming community of this region by evolving various varieties in field and horticultural crops. Our scientists are engaging always to develop farmers oriented problems research projects.