Institutions /Associations

  
INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi 110 001

Established: 1929 
Number of Research Institutes : 49
Number of National Research Centres (NRCs) : 30
Number of Project Directorates (PDs) : 12
Number of All-India Co-ordinated Research
Projects (AICRPs) : 152
Number of State Agricultural Universities
(SAUs) Supported : 29

• Inventory of natural resources base, especially in the area of land-use, water-use and agroforestry and wastelands systems for and identified area/watershed.
• Conservation and planned exploitation of germplasm resources through genetic enhancement centres, technology blending centres for plant, trees, livestock and fisheries.
• Enhancing productivity through evolution of new high-yielding hybrids/varieties/breeds/strains with tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
• Development and refinement of dry farming technology.
• Breeder seed production.
• Research on export-oriented commodities.
• Improving integrated nutrient management system.
• Development of integrated pest management practices to optimize plant protection.
• Diversification of agriculture with emphasis on agroforestry, livestock and fisheries.
• Post-harvest technology and engineering with emphasis on on-farm storage.
• Fostering excellence in research and educational programme.

Nagpur- 440 010 (Maharashtra)

Established: 1976

• Varietal improvement
• Basic and fundamental research on problems in cotton.
• Development of low-cost production technology.
• Integrated water and nutrient management methodology.
• Integrated pest management including bioagents.

24 Parganas, Barrackpore 743 101 (West Bengal)

Established: 1953

• Germplasm collection, conservation and evolution and evolution of jute, kenaf, sisal, ramie and sunnhemp.
• High-yielding varieties suitable for different ecological regions in jute and mesta belt.
• Production of good quality fibre crops at minimum cost.
• Economic cropping systems with food and fibre crops in rotation.
• Pest and disease m control systems for jute and allied fibre crops.
• Nutrient uptake by different fibre crops to make a meaningful use of manures and fertilizers.
• Development of improvement varieties of sunnhemp, sisal and ramie together with appropriate management technologies to improve their economics.
• Dissemination of research results through the extension operational research and lab-to land programme.

Lucknow 226 002 (Uttar Pradesh)

Established: 1952

• Breaking yield ceiling of sugarcane in subtropical India through new planning technique.
• Moisture conservation practices to increase yields or early and late maturing varieties of sugarcane under rainfed conditions.
• Studies on water management in sugarcane.
• Economic evaluation of selected aspects of yield increasing sugarcane technology.
• Investigation on leaf scald disease of sugarcane isolation, pathogenicity, assessment of losses and epidemiology.
• Effect of different organic amendments on the control of sugarcane nematodes and their effect on yield and juice quality of sugarcane.
• Biological control of sugarcane moth borer, pyrilla and scales through exotic and indigenous parasites and predators.
• Design and development of a tractor from mounted sugarcane harvester.
• Assessment of post harvest losses and study of equipment and method used in processing cane for jaggery and Khandsari in Uttar Pradesh.

Cuttack 753 006 (Orissa)

Established: 1946

• Generating technology to increase and stabilize productivity of crop in rice-based cropping systems in the rainfed ecosystem of eastern India.
• Collection, evaluation and conservation of rice germplasm.
• Basic and strategic research on crop improvement and resources management such as biotechnology, simulation modelling, integrated pest management, nutrient management etc.
• To work on hybrid rice, scented rice and other quality rice.
• Generating technology to increase and stabilize productivity of crop in rice-based cropping systems in the rainfed ecosystem of eastern India.

Rajahmundry 533 105 (Andhra Pradesh)

Established: 1947

• Evolving Flue-cured Virgina (FCV) varieties of low-tar and low-nicotine contents.
• Breeding varieties for high productivity coupled with quality of non-FCV types.
• Studies related to energy-saving devices for curing of different tobacco types so reduce cost of production.
• Studies on alternative uses of tobacco and tobacco Waste.
• Integrated pest and disease management including use of biological pesticides and studies on pesticide residues.
• Research on hybrid tobacco and biotechnology.

Kanpur 208 024 (Uttar Pradesh)

Established: 1984

• Developing varieties of pulse crops for improved yield and sustainability through resistance to diseases and pests.
• Introduction and improvement of pulses to suit non-traditional areas.
• Emphasizing on research in hybrid pigeonpea.
• Strengthening of nucleus and breeder seed production.
• Breeding early maturing genotypes for increased cropping intensities.
• Biotechnology and Integrated Pest Management approaches for pest and disease management.
• To develop management systems for efficient use of natural resources and applied inputs in pulse crop production.
• Collection, evaluation and preservation of germplasm.
• Nutrient quality and nutrient requirement, biochemical basis of resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
• To develop efficient post harvest technology.
• On farm testing and transfer of improved technology.
• To foster close linkage between national and international organization.

Junagadh 362 001 (Gujarat)

Established: 1979

• Basic and applied research on groundnut.
• Germplasm collection and data base compilation.
• Production technology for different growing situations and systems.

Hyderabad 500 030 (Andhra Pradesh)

Established: 1987

• Maintenance, evaluation and utilization of sorghum germplasm.
• Breeding for superior male and female parents based on on-milo cytoplasm.
• Breeding for kharif and rabi sorghum hybrids and for high-yielding, striga-resistant varieties/hybrids of sorghum.
• Nitrogen balance studies in sorghum based cropping systems.
• Study on nutrient response of sorghum under receding moisture conditions.
• Quantification of biological nitrogen fixation, nitrogen transfers in intercropping and sequence cropping systems, better management of crop residues and minimum tillage.
• Investigations on resistance to charcoalrot and grain moulds in sorghum.
• Studies on varietal resistance to grain moulds in sorghum.
• Relationships of biomass harvest index and economic yield in entries for Advance Varietal Trials and Co-ordinated Varietal Trials.
• Improvement of forage sorghums for yield and quality.
• Developing sorghum for multiutilization.
• Studies on alternative uses of grain sorghum.
• Seed technology studies in grain-sorghum.

Khandwa Road, Indore 452 001 (M.P.)

Established: 1987

• National repository of soyabean germplasm.
• Soyabean crop improvement.
• Crop production aspects.
• Crop protection aspects.

Hyderabad 500 030 (Andhra Pradesh)

Established: 1965

• Raising yield ceiling and sustaining yield potential of currently available technology for irrigated areas.
• Development/identification of appropriate varietal/management technologies for increasing the yield level in major rainfed ecosystems.
• Increasing the profitability of rice cultivation through development of cost effective technology and remunerative cropping pattern.
• Development of appropriate communication models and strengthening extension linkages for effective transfer of rice production technology.

Hyderabad 500 030 (Andhra Pradesh)

Established: 1977

• Assessing the economic viability of improved agro-production/protection technologies, new cropping systems developed in the network.
• Basic and strategic researches (wide hybridization,genetic, restructuring of plant types, breeding systems, selection criteria, bioecological studies)
• Screening and inoculation techniques, host pathogen relations, biocontrol strategies, etc., in critical areas for breaking stagnation in the per hectare yields and to bring about much needed stability to the production and productivity of different mandate crops.
• Post harvest researches in the areas of storage and utilization of oilseeds.

Post Box No. 158, Kanjpure Road,

Karnal 132 001 (Haryana)

Established: 1978

• Identification of superior yielding, disease-resistant varieties of wheat suitable for various agroclimatic and cultural conditions.
• Identification of sources of resistance/tolerance to various biotic and abiotic stresses.
• Development of improved germplasm and international co-operation in this regard.
• Monitoring of progress of research at co-operating centres.
• Organization of breeder’s seed production programme.

IARI, New Delhi 110 012

Established: 1985

• Plant cell genetic manipulation.
• Plant genome organization and expression.
• Plant microbial interaction.
• Micropropagation.

M.S. SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION, CHENNAI (MSSRF)

Professor M S Swaminathan, President
Third Cross Street Taramani Institutional Area Chennai- 600 113
Tamil Nadu

Objective

The M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) was established in July 1988 as a Trust committed to a mission of harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development. MSSRF’s research, training, communication, extension and networking programmes, in the fields of agriculture and rural development, seek to link ecological security to livelihood security in a mutually reinforcing manner.

Sector (s)

Agriculture, Backward communities, Energy, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Forestry, Intellectual property, Rural Development, Science & Technology, Sustainable Development, Women’s issues.

USHAGRAM TRUST

Sri Gopal Chandra Chakraborty, Secretary
Vill-Ushagram, P.O.Birnagar, Dist: Nadia,
West Bengal- 741127

Area under work

Ten villages around Ushagram under Barasat Panchayet area.

Type of Activity

Bio-manures of different types are used in the field of sustainable agriculture. These are slurry of gobar gas plant, green manure, azola, compost manure, vermi compost was also synthesized and on application to floriculture yielded good results. Chemical fertilizers are used proportionately (in small quantity) with bio-manure. There is nominal or no use of chemical pesticides in the agricultural fields. Bio repellents are being experimented in the fields of vegetables as alternatives to chemical pesticides. Mushroom cultivation, apiculture, dairy, nursery, herbal plantation units are run by expert workers.

Vanarai trust

Mr. Mohan Dharia, President
Vanarai Aditya Residency 498 Parvati Mitra Mandal Chowk, Pune- 411 009
Maharashtra

Objective

Vanarai educates sponsors and organizes a massive people’s movement for integrated rural development and green India. It motivates farmers, gram panchayat members, educationists, cooperative institutes, and voluntary organisations; takes up massive afforestation and integrated rural development programmes; creates effective use of land and water and encourages generation of energy through non-traditional methods.

Sector(s)

Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Rural Development, Water

Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD)

Mr.Depinder Singh Kapur, Program Officer
4^th Floor, Bharatiya Kala Kendra # 1
Copernicus Marg New Delhi- 11001

Objective

The organisation prevents degradation of life support systems, particularly land and water. It expands livelihood opportunities in a sustainable and equitable manner through people’s participation. It encourages research on harvesting structures.

Sector (s)

Agriculture, Sustainable Development, Water