ICAR - Central Arid Zone Research Institute

Thrust Areas

• Development of area specific farming systems
• Conservation, improvement and management of range lands
• Improving water productivity in commercial crops, cereals and pulses

Disciplines

• Economic botany, Plant Physiology, Agro-forestry, Horticulture

Current Activities

• Biodiversity conservation of endemic and traditional economic plants
• Development and Improvement of promising genotypes in under-utilized shrub species/ crops
• Characterization and evaluation of grasses, shrubs/trees and crop species for integrated farming and/ or alternate land use system
• Assessment of carbon sequestration potential of different alternate land use system
• Maintenance of datepalm cultivars
• Seed production of range grasses and crops​