Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, is a research and development centre functioning under the auspices of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. The project was approved by Government of Pakistan in 1967. Research activity was started in 1970 and the institute was formally inaugurated on April 6, 1972. From the outset, the mandate was to create and maintain new genetic material for sustained agriculture development and to conduct research on applied problems in the field of agriculture and biology using nuclear and other related techniques.

The Institute is financed by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, which is under the administrative control of the Federal Government. However, the operational budget is also supplemented through research grants and projects won by scientists on a competitive basis from some international/national agencies.

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