The Union Minister for Science & Technology & Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest & Climate Change dedicated to the nation two research institutes. These are National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) and Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB) in Mohali Punjab. NABI is the first Agri-Food and Nutritional based Biotechnology Institute and CIAB is the first institute dedicated to generation of secondary agriculture bioproducts.