• 2006: ICAR represented in the First Governing Body of the FAO Seed Treaty (
ITPGRFA) in Madrid, Spain. • 2006: ICAR developed a
vaccine against
bird flu. The vaccine was developed at the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory,
Bhopal, the only facility in the country to conduct tests for the
H5N1 variant of bird flu. It was entrusted with the task of developing a vaccine by the ICAR after the
Avian Influenza outbreak in February. • 2007: Launch of US–India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative. • 2008: India-Brazil-South Africa Joint Working Group on Agriculture Initiated. • 2009: In December 2009, it announced that it was considering a policy to provide
open access to its research. • 2009: New and restructured postgraduate curricula and syllabi introduced. • 2010: In March 2010, ICAR made its two flagship journals (
Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences and
Indian Journal of Animal Sciences) as
open access journals. • 2011: ICAR scientists were the first in the world to sequence the
pigeonpea genome. It was an indigenous effort by 31 scientists led by
Nagendra Kumar Singh of NRCPB. The first draft of the sequence was published in J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. • 2013: On 13 September 2013, it announced the
Open Access Policy and committed for making all the public funded scholarly research outputs openly available via open access repositories. • 2019: ICAR has also published an Integrated Mobile App called KISAAN (Krishi Integrated Solution for Agri Apps Navigation) for Farmers of country Mobile App has interface in 12 Indian Languages. • 2024: ICAR launched its 'One Scientist-One Product' program on July 16 to enhance research in agriculture and animal husbandry. ==Accreditation ==