Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) is the apex agricultural research organization at the national level. Its main objective is to strengthen Pakistan's agricultural research system, comprising the federal and provincial components.

In Pakistan, all the four provinces have established a large number of institutions to meet their specific needs for agricultural research. The activities of these institutions need to be coordinated at national level to make judicious use of resources in terms of men, money and materials. PARC is the only organization in the country with a mandate to coordinate agricultural research, being carried out in the provincial as well as federal institutions and the universities.

PARC conducts research, specially of a basic and long term nature in areas of national importance, which are either neglected or inadequately covered or are beyond the resources of the provincial institutions requiring sophisticated and costly equipment and facilities as well as highly qualified but scarce manpower and frequent interaction with international agricultural research institutions