Directorate of Research
The office that sets the university's research agenda and runs the centre, the farms and the seasonal programmes.
Research that begins with a farmer's problem.
The Directorate of Research decides what the university studies and where. It builds the annual research programme from the problems reported by the extension side — a pest that has moved north, a variety that lodges in late rain, a soil that has stopped responding to the same fertiliser — and assigns each to a division, a season and a plot.
It runs the university's research centre, its farms at Rajbiraj, and the winter, spring and summer programmes that follow the Terai's three cropping seasons. Trial protocols, plot allocation, data recording and the release of findings all pass through this office.
Findings do not stop at the plot boundary. What holds up over successive seasons is handed to the Directorate of Extension for demonstration on farmers' fields, and to the Technology Transfer unit for release as a recommendation.
Setting the agenda
An annual research programme built from field-reported problems, not from a shelf.
Running the farms
Plot allocation, cropping plan and trial layout across the university's research land.
Data and analysis
Standard protocols, season-by-season recording and analysis before anything is claimed.
Collaboration
Joint trials and knowledge exchange with NARC and partner institutions.