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COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESERACH-GHANA.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research was established in its present form by NLC Decree 293 of October 10, 1968 and re-established by CSIR Act 1996(Act 521) on November 26, 1996. However, the Council traces its ancestry to the erstwhile National Research Council NRC) which was established by Government in August 1958 to organize and co-ordinate scientific research in Ghana's

In 1963, the NRC was merged with the former Ghana Academy of Sciences, a statutory learned society. Following a review in 1966, the Academy was reconstituted into, essentially, its original component bodies, a national research organization redesignated the CSIR and a learned society, the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences(GAAS). The CSIR's main areas of research are:

Built Environment. Defence, Peace, Safety and Security technologies. Food, biological and chemical technologies. Materials and manufacturing sciences. Natural Resources and Environment.

INSTITUTES

The CSIR can boast of 13 research institutes, which are all scattered across the length and breadth of Ghana. They include :

Animal Research Institute Crops Research Institute Food Research Institute Oil Palm Research Institute Savanna Agricultural Research Institute Institute of Industrial Research Building and Road Research Institute Institute for Scientific and Technological Information Science and Technology Policy Research Institute Soil Research Institute Water Research Institute Plant Genetic Resources Research Instutute Forestry Research Institute of Ghana External links