Present Director General of ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) is

ICAR, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, is the apex body for coordinating, guiding, and managing research and education in agriculture in the entire country. Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra is secretary (DARE) and director general of ICAR appointed on 22^nd February 2016. He has served the National Centre on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi as a researcher for about 20 years. He is a scientist of global repute working in the areas of molecular genetics and genomics.