The Agricultural Research Council (CRA) is a national research organization which operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (MiPAAF) with general scientific competence on agriculture, agroindustry, agrifood, fishery, aquaculture and forestry, seed certification and analysis of agricultural policy and economics. CRA, established in 1999, is the third institutional research body in Italy and the first in agricultural research. In 2012 the activities of National Research Institute on Food and Nutrition (INRAN) and of National Institute of Elected Seeds (ENSE), were added to CRA’s activities. Scientific and experimental competencies cover: crops, arboriculture, animal production, agro-industry processes; agrifood and seed certification.
