The National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC) - Zambia is hosted at the Mount Makulu Central Research Station, the headquarters of the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI), a department of the Ministry of Agriculture.
The national genebank currently holds 6,653 accessions of seed samples for 49 different crop species and 311 clones of vegetatively propagated crops, together with a wide range of genetic resources of crop wild relatives and useful plant species.