Promoting Agricultural Research and Development to Strengthen Food Security in South Asia

Table 1

Number of full-time equivalent agricultural researchers per million economically active agricultural populations in selected South Asian countries, 1996–2009.

	1996–00	2001–05	2006–09
India	56.6	50.9	43.6
Pakistan	192.3	165.7	144.4
Bangladesh	59.2	58.3	63.9
Sri Lanka	143.8	139.7	156.5
Nepal	47.7	43.9	35.4

Source: FAOSTAT 2012, http://www.asti.cgiar.org/.