Established in May, 1991 under the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers. IPFT established a healthy rapport with the pesticides industries and has been able to sucessfully transfer technology for safer, efficient and environment friendly formulations.

The Institute also functions as a Technical Coordinator Unit (TCU) on User and Environment friendly pesticide formulation technology and quality control of RENPAP, one of the largest networks of UNDP/UNIDO comprising of 15 countries of Asia.