Fundamentals of Extension Education

Indian Institute of Vegetable Research(IIVR)

• Vegetable research was given impetus through establishment of AICRP on vegetable crops during 1971 at IARI,
• New Delhi with the responsibilities of coordinating and monitoring of vegetable research programmes of the country.
• To give a fillip to the research and to meet the challenges of nutritional security, the status of AICRP on vegetable
• Crops was elevated to the level of Project Directorate of Vegetable Research (PDVR) during 1986 with its headquarter
• At IARI, New Delhi. During 1992, the head quarter was shifted at Varanasi from IARI New Delhi.
• Considering the vital role of vegetables in nutritional security, emerging trends of national/international demand
• And higher economic return, PDVR was further upgraded to the level of national institute under ICAR system during •
• 1999 and named “Indian Institute of Vegetable Research”.

Mandate
• To undertake innovative, basic, strategic, anticipatory and applied research for developing technologies to enhance productivity of vegetable crops, their nutrient quality and post-harvest management.
• To provide scientific leadership in coordinated network research for solving location-specific problems of production and to monitor breeder seed production of released/ notified varieties and parental lines.
• To act as a national repository of scientific information relevant to vegetable crops and as a centre for training for up-gradation of scientific manpower working on vegetable crops.
• To develop high yielding, good quality, disease and insect pest resistant varieties/ hybrids of selected vegetable crops.
• To develop advanced production and protection technologies for selected vegetable varieties/ hybrids. • To undertake germplasm collection, maintenance and documentation in vegetable crops.