The Cagayan Valley Agricultural Research Complex (CVARC) emerged when a Memorandum of Agreement was signed on September 1976 between Dr. Joseph C. Madamba, Director General of The Philippine Council for Agricultutal Resources Research (PCARR); the Honorable Leonardo Catral, Regional Director of BPI and Dr. Rodolfo C. Nayga, the President of Cagayan Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT).
When the CVIT and the Isabela State University (ISU) through the Presidential Decree 1434 in June 1978, ISU was identified as a Regional Research Center under the PCARRD national network of research centers and stations. This paved the way for renaming the CVARC into Cagayan Valley Integrated Agricultural Research System or CVIARS on November 17, 1978. Under the CVIARS set-up, ISU has been identified as the Regional Center with the BPI, PTA and NIA as cooperating stations to backstop the development program of Cagayan Valley. Five years later, more agencies became members of CVIARS such as CSU, DA-R02, NVSIT, and NEDA-R02.
CVIARS remained as the mechanism for planning, coordinating, implementing, evaluating and monitoring research activities on agriculture and natural resources in Cagayan Valley until November 25, 1988 when CVIARS was converted into a Research Consortium now known as Cagayan Valley Agriculture and Resources Research and Development (CVARRD) now composed of 17 member agencies with ISU as the base agency. Aside from the agencies already mentioned above, the membership of CVARRD includes DA-ATI, DA-BAR, DENR-ERDB, PCARRD, DENR-R02, DOST-R02, QSC, DENR-MGB, ULS and LGU-Santiago City (See Organization, Member Agencies).
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