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COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESERACH-GHANA.

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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 :

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  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 

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