About AICRP on Fruits

• To have a holistic approach in fruit crops coordination; the AICRP on Tropical Fruits (TF) at IIHR, Bengaluru and Sub-Tropical Fruits (STF) at CISH, Lucknow have been merged and renamed as AICRP on Fruits with effect from 21st August 2013 with its headquarters at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru.  

• The All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) was extended to tropical fruits during the fourth five year plan (1969-74) on 31st July 1971. It was initially named as All India Coordinated Fruit Improvement Project (AICFIP). The project started to work on citrus, banana, papaya and pineapple as cell-I and on mango, guava and grape as cell-II. Later AICFIP was named as AICRP and Cell-I as AICRP on Tropical and Cell-II as AICRP on Subtropical Fruits.

• The Pedong centre of AICRP on Tropical Fruits with Citrus and pineapple as its mandate crops was shifted to Mohanpur with banana and jackfruit as its mandate crops.

• During IX plan the evaluations of promising lines of pineapple have been completed hence pineapple was phasedout.  In lieu of this, jackfruit has been included at five centres viz., Jorhat, Kannara, Kovvur, Mohanpur and Periyakulakm.

• Currently, AICRP on Fruits has 40 centres (28-SAU based centres, 10-ICAR Institute based centres, 1-CAU based centre and 1-Private).