Mbarara ZARDI is a Public Agricultural Research Institute (PARI) which was established as part of implimenting the Uganda's National Agricultural Research Policy and Strategy, which seeks to decentralize Agricultural Research and Development for modernisation of Agriculture in the country. The institute is mandated to conduct, client oriented, demand-driven and markert responsive research specific to the Sourth-western Rangeland agro-ecological zone , through adaptive research and technology dissermination in live stock, crop, fisheries, forestry and linking production to market. In the districts of:       Bushenyi, Ibanda, Isingiro, Kiruhura, Mbarara, Ntungamo, Rakai,and Sembabula.

Mbarara ZARDI is one of the seven ZARDIs under the policy guidance of the National Agricultural Research Organisation. (NARO).

Institute Location:

4km Mbarara-Kasese

P.BOX 389,Mbarara

Email:narombarara@afsat.com