MANDATE MAIN FACILITIES SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS CONTACT ADDRESS

MANDATE

• To conduct basic and applied research on economic plants.
• To conduct research relevant to plantation, forest, agriculture and horticulture produce with a view to value addition and providing technological support for the development of the existing and new industries in the Northern region of the country.
• To assist the growers an industrialists through consultancy, contract research and training, etc.

• Sophisticated instruments, e.g. HPLC, GLC, GC-MS, FTIR, ELISA, spectrophotometers, laser densitometer, etc.
• Refrigerated centrifuges, ultracentrifuges, freeze and spray dryers.
• Radio isotope facilities.
• Well-equipped tissue culture labs.
• Distillation facilities for high value aromatic plants products at pilot plant scale.
• Pesticide residue testing laboratory for tea.
• Manufacture and quality monitoring of tea (green and black).
• FRP Greenhouse.
• Virus testing facilities.
• Supporting library linked to major networks for literature access through DIALOG. Also CD-ROM, E-mail, and DTP facilities.
• Modern functional computer facilities with LAN with ten nodes.

• Development of agrotechnologies for the cultivation of tea, gladiolus, chrysanthemum, rose, carnation, tulip, bird of paradise, etc.
• Standardization of techniques for tea processing and essential oil distillation.
• Increase in the shelf life of kinnow and litchi fruits.
• Development of tissue culture techniques for mass propagation of elite planting materials  of tea and maggar bamboo, and for supply of disease-free plants of tiger-lillies and gladiolus.
• Development of low cost greenhouses (polyhouses).

CONTACT ADDRESS
 Palampur, H.P. 176 061.
 Telephone: (091)1894-30411. 
 Telegram : CONSEARCH.
 Fax      : (091)1894-30433.
 E-mail   : root%csirxp@sirnetd.ernet.in.