Future Thrust Areas
- Genetic improvement and evaluation of genetic resources for development of improved cultivars in tropical fruits.
- Assessment on impact of climatic variation on phenology, productivity and incidence of insect pests and diseases of tropical fruits.
- Evaluation of sustainable and input use efficient technologies under different agro-climatic conditions.
- Bio-intensive and eco-friendly management of major insect-pests and diseases in tropical fruits.
- Production of healthy planting material in tropical fruits.
- Effective dissemination of technology developed by AICRP in collaboration with KVKs.
Programmes to be taken under each of the Thrust Areas
- Genetic improvement and evaluation of genetic resources for development of improved cultivars in tropical fruits.
- Collection, Characterisation, Conservation, Evaluation and utilization of germplasm for tropical fruits.
- Development of Varieties resistant biotic and abiotic stresses in tropical fruits and rootstocks in citrus and jackfruit.
- Exploring the new rootstocks use in sapota.
- Assessment on impact of climatic variation on phenology, productivity and incidence of insect pests and diseases of tropical fruits.
- Assessment of phenology, productivity and incidence of insect pests and diseases in tropical fruits grown under varying climatic conditions.
- Developing of methodologies to overcome negative impacting factors of climate variables on productivity.
- Evaluation of sustainable and input use efficient technologies under different agro-climatic conditions.
- Assessment of cost effective water and nutrient management technologies under different agro-climatic conditions.
- Assessment of cost effective canopy architecture management techniques to improve the input use efficiency in citrus, sapota and jackfruit.
- Identifying the limiting soil nutrient factors for productivity.
- Bio-intensive and eco-friendly management of major insect-pests and diseases in tropical fruits.
- Development of Decision support system (DSS) for timely prediction, diagnosis and recommendation.
- biology and dynamics of emerging insect pests of tropical fruits.
- Evaluation of new bio-intensive and eco-friendly formulations for major insect-pests and diseases in tropical fruits.
- Production of healthy planting material in tropical fruits
- Establishing/strengthening the mother blocks.
- Developing the package for the production of healthy planting material in tropical fruits.
- Effective dissemination of technology developed by AICRP in collaboration with KVKs.
- Front line demonstration on the technology generated by AICRP on Tropical Fruits.