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Central Research Institute For Soyabean In Kalahandi

Kumari Sonali

Central Research Institute For Soyabean:

The Union Minister of Agriculture informed Rajya Sabha about the setting up a Central Research Institute in Kalahandi for Soyabean.

  • The Kalahandi district of Odisha produces Soybean on a very limited scale.
  • The ICAR has established a national-level research Institute on Soybean in 1987 namely, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore (Madhya Pradesh) to conduct basic and strategic research on the crop.
  • Besides this, ICAR is also implementing an All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Soybean since 1967 in association with the State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) to develop location-specific high yielding varieties and production technologies required to increase Soybean production in the country.
  • The ICAR-AICRP on Soybean has one voluntary center at Regional Research & Technology Transfer Station, Bhawanipatna (Kalahandi) under the Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar.
  • This station is undertaking need-based and location-specific research on Soybean for the hot & moist sub-humid climate of Odisha comprising of Kalahandi, Bolangir, and Koraput.

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