About Food & Fertilizer Technology Center

About company

FFTC was established in 1970 to act as a clearing house for the research carried out in the ASPAC region, and to help bring the results to extension workers and farmers. The creation of the Center was in response to severe periodic shortages of both food and fertilizer in the 1970s. It was apparent at that time that a lack of technical information among farmers was the basis of the problem, compounded by an inadequate fertilizer supply and a shortage of improved seeds. The underlying motive for the creation of the Center was the concern about food shortages in the densely populated Asian countries.