Schemes and development Programmes

Schemes and development Programmes

• Division of Crop Protection
  • National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)
  • Smart Agriculture Farmer Zone, Sentinel 1  
    
• Division of Plant Protection
  • CRP on Vaccines and Diagnostics –”Development and application of Diagnostics to virus, viroid and phytoplasma infecting potato”.
  •  DST-SERB Project –ds RNA based strategy for the management of potato cyst Nematode
  •  National Certification System for Tissue Culture Raised Plants (NCS-TCP)
  •  Development of transgenic potato with resistance to major virus
• Division of Crop Improvement
  • Management and enhancement of potato germplasm.
  • Breeding to evolve trait specific varieties for productivity, quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
  • Genetic enhancement of potato through molecular and genomic tools.