Food and Agricultural
Research Council
Réduit Mauritius
Tel (230) 465-1011 Fax (230) 465-3344
E-mail farcdg@bow.intnet.mu farc@bow.intnet.mu
All correspondence to be addressed to the Director General
Chairman: Alain Noël g.o.s.k, c.b.e., Bsc ( Agric )
MANDATE
The Food and Agricultural
Research Council is a corporate body enacted on the 25th July 1985. This act has now been repealed by Act No 20
of 1997. The objectives of the FARC are :
§ To coordinate, promote and harmonise research activities in agriculture,fisheries and food production;
§ To conduct, through such units as it may set up, research in agriculture and food production
§ To maximise the benefits of such research; and
§ To carry out such other activities relating to research in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food production as may be approved by the Minister.
The functions of the Council are
:
· To
co-ordinate, monitor and promote research projects and programmes
·
entrusted to the different units set up by it;
·
of the different institutions engaged in agriculture,
fisheries and food production without any prejudice to existing legislation
concerning these institutions;
· To set
priorities in line with the needs of the agricultural sector;
· To
ensure as far as possible the proper dissemination and practical application of
the results of any such research;
· To
establish units for the purpose of conducting research extension and other
related activities and to ensure the proper functioning, staffing and
allocation of resources to such units
· To
advise the Minister generally on national policies and other matters related to
food and agricultural research and application thereof.
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