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Sugarcane Breeding Institute (SBI) is a central research institute in Coimbatore, India. [1] It was established in 1912 and is affiliated to Indian Council of Agricultural Research . It was established to promote research efforts in sugarcane production and is the only sugarcane research institute in the country.
As an expert in cytogenetics, Janaki Ammal joined the Sugarcane Breeding Station at Coimbatore to work on sugarcane biology. [1] At that time, the sweetest sugarcane in the world was the Saccharum officianarum variety from Papua New Guinea and India imported it from Southeast Asia. In a bid to improve India's indigenous sugarcane varieties, the ...
The Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research (acronym: IISR) [1] is an autonomous institute of higher learning, under the umbrella of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) [2] by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for advanced research in sugar cane agriculture.
Sugar cane cutting. Sugar has been produced in India since ancient 1200BC and then it spread to other parts. Sugarcane is a native of tropical Indian and Pakistan subcontinent then to Southeast Asia. [1] In India, sugarcane is planted thrice a year in October, March and July depending on part of the country. [2]
With the formation of the Development Council for Sugar Industry under the provisions of the Industries (Development and Regulation ) Act, 1951, the functions of the Indian Central Sugarcane Committee were abridged with effect from 1 January 1954 and the administrative control of the Institute was transferred to the Government of India, under ...
Status and Future Needs of Farm Mechanisation and Agro Processing in India. National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014; Dr R N S Yadav. Machinery for Sugarcane Production. National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014
2007: Launch of US–India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative. [10] 2008: India-Brazil-South Africa Joint Working Group on Agriculture Initiated. [11] 2009: In December 2009, it announced that it was considering a policy to provide open access to its research. 2009: New and restructured postgraduate curricula and syllabi introduced. [12]
When the International Society of Sugarcane Technologists decided to hold its 1956 conference in India, he chaired the section on cane breeding; during the conference, a plaque commemorating the development of the Co. 205 cultivar was unveiled at the Sugarcane Breeding Institute. [3] Venkataraman died in Madras on 18 January 1963, aged 78.