Central Potato Research Institute Ooty

I have heard a lot about the Central Potato Research Institute and want details about the centre located in Ooty. Will you tell is there any center of Central Potato Research Institute located here if yes provide address if not tell where this institutes centres located in India?

[Arvind Kumar]

The Central Potato Research Institute is a governmental organisation in India, with the following mandate:

To undertake basic and strategic research for developing technologies to enhance productivity and utilisation of potato

To produce disease-free basic seed of different notified varieties developed by the institute.
To act as national repository of scientific information relevant to potato

To provide leadership and co-ordinate network research with state agricultural universities for generating location and variety-specific technologies and for solving area-specific problems of potato production.
To collaborate with national and international agencies in achieving the objectives.
To act as a centre for training in research methodologies and technology for up-grading scientific manpower in modern technologies for potato production.
To provide consultancy in potato research and develpment.

Central Potato Research Institute doesn't have any center located in Ooty

CPRI operates 7 regional research stations in different potato growing areas in India. These are located in different potato growing areas of the country:

Kufri-Fagu (HP), Modipuram (UP), Jalandhar (Punjab), Gwalior (MP), Patna (Bihar), Shillong (Meghalaya), and Ootacamund (Tamil Nadu).

Address:

Central Potato Research Institute
Shimla 171001, Himachal Pradesh

E-mail: directorcpri@gmail.com,
dircpri@icar.org.in

Tel: +91-177 -2625073

Fax: + 91-177 -2624460