Crop Diseases Research Porgram

NARC, Islamabad

INTRODUCTION

Crop Diseases Research Institute (CDRI) is the premier Institute in Pakistan working on Crop Health Management through applied and basic research in phytopathology under the aegis of Pakistan Agricultural Research Council. It existed in its nuclear form since 1955 and through several reorganizations, attained the structure and mandate of Crop Diseases Research Institute in 1983. Later in 2001 in an institutional re-organization of PARC it merged into a newly developed Institute of Plant and Environmental Protection with the change of status from Institute to Programme. It is the only one of its kind in the country. It is working with the infrastructure of main laboratories at National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad and two substations, one each at Karachi and Murree.

Mission

Minimization of losses at the farm level through applied and basic research on crop diseases.
 

Goal:

Development of techniques for identification and management of crop diseases.
 

Objectives:

    -  Problem oriental basic research in phytopathology.

    -  Coordination of phytopathological research in the country.

    -  Help to plant breeders in developing disease resistant varieties of crop plants.

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