National Research Centre for Cashew - [NRCC]
Overview Information
About College
The National Research Centre for Cashew, at Puttur, Karnataka conducts researches on all the facets of cashews focusing the factors to improve their quality and productivity especially for exporting them. NRCC is a centre for imparting education on research methodology and updating the technologies for growing cashews in bulk and also coordinates on numerous national research projects. Institute has bunch of research achievements in its pocket and working on many others. NRCC aim high to develop management and technical professionals with global standards.
Fact and Figures of National Research Centre for Cashew
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Year of Establishment |
1986 |
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Category |
Specialized Institution |
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Affiliated |
Madurai Kamaraj University |
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Approved By |
ICAR |
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Courses Offered |
Diploma and Doctoral Degree |
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Library Resources |
1200 reference books, 1550 back volumes of Journals and subscribes 57 journals |
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How to Reach |
1.2 km from KSRTC Bus Depot, Puttur |
Why to join National Research Centre for Cashew?
- Research Collaborations: It has collaborated with various national organizations like UAS(Bengaluru), CIAE(Bhopal), DCCD(Kochi), etc. for various research projects on cashew.
- Research achievements: Many achievements are done in the researches carried on by our scientists and students. Institute has the largest collection of germplasm of cashews in the whole country – 509 accessions. It also has got the technique for regeneration of cashews from seedling explants and that have been standardized. Also new plants have been raised through micro grafting.