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    Diamond Jubilee of ICAR-CTCRI @2023

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    One Earth. One Family. One Future

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    World's only one research institute doing research exclusively on tropical tuber crops

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    Development of strategies and products for managing pests and diseases affecting tropical tuber crops

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    Collection and conservation of germplasm and improvements of different tuber crops.

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    Developing new agro techniques for tropical tuber crops in different agro climatic regions

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    Value addition and post harvest processing of tropical tuber crops.

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    Transferring the technologies to the clienteles

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World Soil Day - 2023

At ICAR-CTCRI Head quarters, the World Soil Day 2023 focussing on this year’ s theme, ‘Soil and water: a source of life’ was celebrated on December 5 at 2.30 p.m. Dr. Sabu Joseph, Professor, Environmental Sciences and Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences & Technology, University of Kerala delivered the theme lecture on ‘Soil and Water Pollution in India: Challenges and Mitigations’. A total of 30 students from Government Model High School for Girls, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram attended the celebration. Dr. G. Suja, Director in charge and Head, Division of Crop Production administered the World Soil Day Pledge in both English and Malayalam and was taken by the audience during the occasion. The students and School were felicitated and were provided with planting materials of 10 high yielding varieties of cassava and sweet potato. The students along with the Chief Guest visited the various facilities and experiments of the Institute and acquainted with the type of research and development going on here. Dr. G. Suja, Dr. K. Susan John, Principal Scientist and nodal officer of the programme and Dr. J. Suresh Kumar, Scientist spoke on the occasion highlighting the significance of observing the World Soil Day every year to create awareness among the public on the importance of maintaining soil health to sustain this valuable resource for future generations.

CTCRI inks MoU with Odisha government

The ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI), Thiruvananthapuram, has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the Odisha government for developing a customised rainbow diet for combating malnutrition in children at Keonjhar, a district with a sizeable tribal population. The MoA on behalf of Odisha Governor and ICAR-CTCRI was signed respectively by S.N. Panigrahi, Deputy Director of Horticulture, Keonjhar district, and CTCRI director G. Byju at Keonjhar on Monday. The four-year, ₹6.83-crore project is aimed at implementing a value-chain improvement strategy. This includes a baseline malnutrition assessment, production of nutritionally enriched tubers, millets, and other locally preferred food crops, and development of nutriseed systems.

National Conference on Tropical Tuber Crops organised at ICAR-CTCRI

A two-day National Conference on 'Tropical Tuber Crops for Sustainability, Tradition, Agri-Food Systems & Resilience' to commemorate the diamond jubilee celebrations of CTCRI in collaboration with Indian Society for Root Crops (ISRC) was organized with an aim to understand the scope and importance of tropical tuber crops among various stakeholders including researchers, farming community and policy makers at ICAR –CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram during 28-29 November 2023. Dr. B Neeraja Prabhakar, Vice Chancellor, Sri Konda Laxman Telangana State Horticultural University, Telangana, inaugurated the conference. Dr. G. Byju, Director, ICAR-CTCRI presided over the function and Dr. R. Dinesh, Director, ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Kozhikode was the Guest of Honour of the inaugural function.

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CTCRI Vision 2050 provides an oppurtunity to evaluate the relevance of tropical tuber crops in food security by introspecting the accomplishment and visualizing the challenges this sector may face in future. It also critically examines possible scenario of operating environment.