After the establishment of National Agriculture Genetic Resources Center (National Genebank) in 2010 at Khumaltar, the major contributions of the Center are:
- Made access of diverse genetic resources to plant breeders, students, researchers and farmers.
- Functionalized seed bank, tissue bank, DNA bank, field genebank and community genebank (seed and field genebank), household genebank, agro insect field genebank, mushroom park, livestock farm genebank, aqua pond genebank, forage field genebank, agro gene sanctuary, school field genebank.
- Systematized the management of accessions of all AGRs through passport, characterization, evaluation data and images.
- Started conservation of crops, forages, livestock, agro insects, agro microorganisms, aquatic agricultural genetic resources, (including domesticated, semi domesticated, wild edible and wild relatives)
- Characterized and identified elite lines of different crops.
- Developed 101 good practices and activities for conservation and utilization of AGRs.
- Contributed to development of Agrobiodiversity Policy 2007 (revised 2014) and NBSAP and other policy documents, IMISAP, etc.
- Collaborated with national and international organizations for conserving and enhancing agricultural genetic resources.
- Genotyped accessions of different crop species and provided molecular lab facilities for genetic diversity study to other organizations
- Explored and collected > 14,000 accessions of about 100 crop species (including wild relatives) from all 75 districts of the country.
- Developed guidelines for Genebank, field genebank, community seed bank, school field genebank, aqua pond genebank, livestock farm genebank, collection, monitoring, database management, passport of plant and aquatic agricultural animal genetic resources, etc
- Rescued germplasm
- Aware, sensitized, and trained to many farmers, students, agriculturists
- 1500 accessions of 7 crops safety duplicated in different CGIAR genebanks
- Documented agrobiodiversity related information and published more than 200 different types of books, research papers, booklets, posters, proceedings, etc.
- Quantified genetic diversity, enhanced genetic performance of landraces
- Created policy environment for registration of native and local landraces
- Registered 19 landraces of 8 crops
- Made database available through three different web portal
- Contributed technically on farmers" rights, geographical indication, plant variety protection rights, ABS, etc.
- Applied biotechnological tools, GIS and CAT for management of AGRs
- Additional contribution are on agrobiodiversity statistics, product diversification, red listing, red zoning, developing and identifying site specific staple crops/ landraces.