Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée (IRAG)

Name

Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée (IRAG)

Website

https://irag-guinee.org

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée (IRAG) is a Conakry, Guinea-based agronomic research entity with 32 employees and a public web presence; no operational, financial, or product details are documented in the supplied input.

Ownership category

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Product category

Agricultural Research

NAICS

Support Activities for Crop Production (11511)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Yield Optimization & Crop Performance Consulting (AFACABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Farm Data Management & Decision Support Services (FMIS Setup, Data Integration, Analytics) (AFACACAC), Carbon, Sustainability & Farm Certification Support (Agro-Environmental Advisory) (AFACABAL)

Keywords

• Agricultural research
• Agronomic studies
• Crop research
• Soil science
• Food security research

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

IRAG functions as Guinea's national agronomic research institute, conducting agricultural research to develop and adapt farming practices, crop varieties, and related technologies for Guinean conditions. Its outputs serve the national agricultural sector, including government planning bodies, farmer cooperatives, and partner research organizations.

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Products and services

• Agronomic Research Services

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Direct peers

• IITA (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture): CGIAR center focused on tropical agriculture across Africa, including mandate crops overlapping with Guinea (cassava, maize, yam, cowpea). Comparable applied research and breeding mandate to IRAG at a continental scale.
• AfricaRice: CGIAR-affiliated pan-African center for rice research, headquartered in Côte d'Ivoire. Directly comparable mandate: applied agronomic research on rice systems relevant to West African food security, making it a close peer for IRAG's rice-focused work.
• ISRA (Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles): Senegal's national agricultural research institute. Closest geographic and structural peer to IRAG — same francophone West African context, similar national-mandate role, but materially larger scale.
• INERA (Institut de l'Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles, Burkina Faso): Burkina Faso's national agronomic and environmental research institute. Same francophone West African mandate, structurally identical to IRAG, and a natural regional counterpart for collaboration and benchmarking.
• CSIR-SARI (Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana): Ghanaian council institute focused on savanna and northern Ghana agriculture. Comparable mandate on cereals, legumes, and soil management for a neighboring West African country.
• ICRISAT: CGIAR center for dryland crops including sorghum, pearl millet, and groundnut — crops also relevant to Guinean dryland zones. Comparable public-mandate, breeding-led research model.
• INRAN (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger): Niger's national agricultural research institute. Same francophone Sahelian context, comparable mandate covering dryland cereals and food-security crops, comparable headcount scale to IRAG.
• IRAD (Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement, Cameroon): Cameroon's national agricultural research institute. Comparable francophone African national-institute mandate covering tropical crops, with a wider commodity scope than IRAG.

Broad incumbents

• CIRAD: French agricultural research and international cooperation organization with deep West African operations. Comparable as a publicly funded agronomic research body partnering with national institutes; broader scope and budget than IRAG.
• CGIAR System Organization: Umbrella organization coordinating 15 international agricultural research centers, many of which partner with and through national institutes like IRAG. Relevant as a funder/partner ecosystem peer rather than a direct operational competitor.

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