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The National Root Crops
Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike is one of the 17
Agricultural Research Institutes in Nigeria. The
Institute started as a Provincial Experimental Farm
under the Nigerian Department of Agriculture with
Headquarters at Moor Plantation, Ibadan in January 1,
1923. In 1955, the training arm – School of Agriculture
was established and the two establishments came under
the Director of Agriculture with Headquarters at Enugu
following the regionalization of the country and was
known as the Eastern Nigeria Agricultural Research
Station. The Institute was merged with the School of
Agriculture and became Agricultural Research and
Training Station (ARTS) in 1956. It assumed a federal
status to become Federal Agricultural Research and
Training Station (FARTS) in April 1, 1972. By April 1,
1976 it became known as National Root Crops Research
Institute by the Agricultural Research Institutes Decree
of 1973, and its enabling Acts of 1975 and came under
the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN).
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