REGIONAL STATIONS

ICAR-CICR, Regional Station, Coimbatore

After independence, the erstwhile Indian Central Cotton Committee, one of the commodity committees extant that time used to sponsor cotton research schemes on an Ad hoc basis until the work was taken over by the ICAR in 1966. Further, the research effort under All India Coordinated Cotton Improvement Project (AICCIP) was initiated by the council in the year 1967. The establishment of AICCIP gave new fillip and direction in terms of multi-disciplinary and multi-centre approaches with the active involvement of State Agriculture Universities. The work in this project has contributed significantly in tackling location-specific problems in terms of varietal improvement and development of appropriate production and protection technologies.

The erstwhile regional station of IARI at Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) became a part of CICR in 1976 to cater to the needs of southern cotton zone.

At the regional station Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) the basic, fundamental and applied research programmes with specific reference to the location-specific requirement of the southern cotton zone are being carried out in the disciplines of Genetics & Plant Breeding, Agronomy, Soil Science, Plant Physiology, Entomology, Nematology, Plant Pathology, Seed Technology, Computer Applications and Agricultural Economics. 

ICAR-CICR, Regional Station, Sirsa

With a view to develop a Centre of Excellence for carrying out long term research on fundamental problems limiting cotton production and also to provide basic support to location specific applied research work being carried out in a network of cotton research centers in the country through the AICCIP system, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research has established the Central Institute for Cotton Research at Nagpur in April, 1976.

In the year 1985, the IARI regional station at Sirsa (Haryana) was transferred to CICR as a regional center for northern irrigated cotton zone.

The regional station at Sirsa (Haryana) situated in the northern cotton belt is primarily concerned with R&D requirements for the irrigated northern zone. The basic, fundamental and applied research work is being undertaken in the Plant Breeding, Entomology, Agronomy, Plant Pathology and Seed Technology disciplines.