Mission and Mandate

Mission
To Make India hunger and malnutrition free
Mandate

  • Harnessing conventional and modern scientific knowledge, tools, and cutting-edge science for development of improved crop varieties/hybrids suited to diverse agro-ecologies and situations, and efficient, economic, eco-friendly and sustainable crop production and protection technologies; promoting excellence in basic, strategic and anticipatory crop science research
  • Refinement of seed-production technologies and production of breeder seed with added emphasis on hybrid cultivars
  • Conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources of plants, insects and other invertebrates, and agriculturally important microorganisms
  • Providing knowledge-intensive advisory and consultancy in crop-science
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