Achievements & Impact
The Crop Science Division (CSD) of ICAR has played a transformative role in shaping Indian agriculture—from spearheading the Green Revolution to advancing climate-resilient and nutritionally enriched crops.
- Varieties Development: Released over 7,000 improved crop varieties since 1969, including 2,813 climate-resilient and 563 extreme climate-tolerant varieties (2014–2025).
- Nutritional Enhancement: Developed 190 biofortified varieties to improve food quality.
- Genetic Resource Conservation: Hosts the National Gene Bank, the second largest globally, conserving 4.71 lakh plant accessions, 4.1 lakh insect specimens, and 9,000+ microbial strains.
- Seed Production: Produced over 5.4 lakh quintals of breeder seed and 19 lakh quintals of quality seed (2020–2025).
- Technological Innovation: Pioneered genome-edited crops, bioformulations, AI-based pest monitoring tools, and eco-friendly production technologies.
- Innovations and Entrepreneurship: Fostering innovation through various initiatives and encouraging commercialization
- AI Smart Trap – a digital agriculture tool for pest monitoring and precision IPM in cotton ecosystem.
- GRAINEX technology: Automated purity analysis in e-NAM for tur, moong, adopted by 1,200+ e-NAM markets
- Speedy Seed viability kit
- Aerial Insect Trap ; Light trap for managing insects; Solar 24x7 Insect Trap
- Pusa Farm SunFridge
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