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

Year of Establishment

1986

Category

Specialized Institution

Affiliated

Madurai Kamaraj University

Approved By

ICAR

Courses Offered

Diploma and Doctoral Degree

Library Resources

1200 reference books, 1550 back volumes of Journals and subscribes 57 journals

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.