>> Research Research is an integral part of the IAAS system. Besides the course work, the faculty members and students are actively engaged in research activities. Although, IAAS do not get regular budget for research from the university, the institute strongly encourages faculties and students towards research activity and supports a number of research projects annually by mobilizing internal resources. The research projects are managed by the Directorate of Research and Publication wing of the Dean Office. The institute adopts highly flexible and transparent research project administration policy to facilitate researchers so that the scientific objectives can be achieved effectively and efficiently. Usually IAAS incurs 10% of the total project budget as overhead cost to cover the project management expenses. Within its limited resources, IAAS annually invests over 600,000 (NRs.) to support faculty and students research projects, mainly postgraduate thesis research work. Depending upon the availability of funds, undergraduate student’s research projects are also supported. The financial support for such projects is awarded on meritorious basis. IAAS faculties have been highly successful in competitive research grant application. Currently, over 20 faculty research projects covering a wide rage of topics of crop science, horticultural science, fishery, animal husbandry and veterinary science are on-going. The total budget of these projects amounts over 40 million Nepalese Rupees. The major in-country funding agency is the National Agriculture Research and Development Fund (NARDF) and among the international agencies DFID, FAO, USAID, UNDP, IFS, Eiselen Foundation, TUFT, IRRI/IFAD, CIMMYT AquaFish/CRSP, EU and WWF are the major ones.