Established in February 1993 by the Government of Zimbabwe through the Research Act [Chapter 10:22] to carry out strategic Research & Development for the benefit of the manufacturing, service, agricultural as well as to commercialise the Research & Development outputs.

Dr Leonard Madzingaidzo CEO for SIRDC and Mr Heng Huang of GAIA Exploration Co Ltd at an MOU signing ceremony between SIRDC and GAIA (CHENGDU) EXPLORATION CO LTD . The areas of cooperation are Capacity building, commercialization, and Process designs and optimization.