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ICAR-All India Co-ordinated Research Project on spices

ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Spices (ICAR-AICRPS) is the largest spices research network in the country through which a nationwide collaborative and interdisciplinary research is being carried out, linking ICAR system with the State Agricultural Universities and central institutions.

Spicing up the Nation’s Progress

Collection and conservation of genetic resources of spices is the major mandate of ICAR-AICRPS. As India is the hot spot of genetic diversity of spices, surveys were conducted in various spice growing belts of the country. A large number of germplasm of about 8500 accessions has been conserved in 12 crops namely, black pepper (825 accessions), cardamom (309 accessions), large cardamom (313 accessions), ginger (633 accessions), turmeric (1569 accessions), clove (30 accessions), nutmeg (122 accessions), cinnamon and cassia (37 accessions), coriander (1690 accessions), cumin (653 accessions), fennel (847 accessions) and fenugreek (1398 accessions) at various centres of ICAR-AICRPS.

Journey of AICRPS – A decadal research in the realms of Spices….

ICAR-AICRPS technologies have also percolated to the remote and inaccessible tribal lands of Chintapalle in Andhra Pradesh, Pottangi in Odisha, Raigarh in Chhattisgarh and NE states providing employment opportunities (especially to women) and uplifting the economic status of farmers by supplying quality planting materials and giving training programmeson high production technologies.