NATIONAL VETEREINARY INSTITUTE is a company located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The company is mainly working in Veterinary Drugs/ Equipments business sectors.
Vision
Committed to be the leader continentally and very competitive globally in the production of quality veterinary vaccines and drugs by the year 2025.
Mission
To support livestock industry by manufacturing relevant veterinary vaccines and drugs of the highest quality to combat economically devastating livestock disease and also earn foreign currency by exporting the products.
National Veterinary Institute (NVI) was established at Debrezeit/Bishoftu in 1964 with 40 persons under the Ministry of Agriculture, getting technical assistance from the French Government through the French Veterinary Mission in Ethiopia. At that time, the real value of the NVI for the welfare of the national animal resources and for the African continent is not well known by most of the people. Today it is one of the most well known veterinary vaccine producing institutions in Africa with its multidisciplinary professional staff having long years of experience.
The infrastructure of NVI is well developed and playing an important role in the attraction of international institution, the Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Control Center (PANVAC) which is under the African Union. Moreover, it has been given the responsibility to produce and supply enough vaccines for PTA (Preferential Trade Area) countries of Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. The institute has reached the level of using state of the art equipments and technologies for biological production and vaccine related research.
Since the creation of the institute, several million doses of different vaccines have been produced and dispatched to protect millions of animals from various infectious diseases. According to the evaluation performed in 1983 by IEMVT (Institute D’Elvage et de Medicine Veterinaire de pays Tropicaux) on the production potential of African laboratories, NVI was graded as the biggest vaccine producing center of all veterinary laboratories in tropical Africa.
Moreover the institute won the International Gold Mercury Award in 1982 in recognition of its positive contribution to national development at the 22nd conference for peace and cooperation.
The National Veterinary Institute was organized as public enterprise by the Proclamation No. 25/1992 and Council of Ministers Regulations No. 52/1999.