PARC National Tea & High Value Crops Research Institute (NTHRI), Shinkiari, Mansehra

National Tea & High Value Crops Research Institute (NTHRI) is working under the auspices of Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Islamabad under the Ministry of National Food Security & Research Islamabad. It was established in 1986 as National Tea Research Station on 50 acres of land in district Mansehra (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and was upgraded to the level of Institute in 1996. In 2013 it was renamed as National Tea and High Value Crops Research Institute (NTHRI) and in addition to tea, high value horticultural crops were also included in the mandate of Institute.