ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region (ICAR-RCER), Patna came into existence on 22nd February 2001 with the joining of Dr S.R. Singh, FNA as O.S.D. Directorate of Water Management Research, Patna was merged and started working as complex. The foundation stone of the Complex was laid by Sri Nitish Kumar, the then Hon’ble Union Minister of Agriculture, Government of India at new site near airport on 29th March 2001. On 1st April 2001, Central Horticultural Experimental Station, Ranchi and Central Tobacco Research Station, Pusa were merged in the complex. The new building ‘Laboratory-cum-Office’ of the complex was dedicated to the nation in the memory of Babu Jagjivan Ram by Sri Sharad Pawar, Hon’ble Union Minister of Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India on 16th October 2006. The office and laboratories were shifted from WALMI Complex, Phulwari Sharif, Patna. Read More