Popular Names of Important Agronomy and Horticultural Crops/Commodities || Important Agricultural Research Institutes

Popular Names of Important Agronomy and Horticultural Crops/Commodities

1. King of cereals - Wheat 

2. Queen of cereals - Maize 

3. King of vegetables - Potato 

4. Poor mans meat - Soybean

5. Famine reserves - Millets 

6. Camel crop - Sorghum

7. Queen of oilseed - Sesame

8. King of oilseed - Groundnut 

9. Queen of fodder crop - Lucerne

10. King of Fodder Crop - Berseem 

11. Vegetable Meat - Cowpea

12. Poor Man's Substitute for Ghee - Sesamum

13. Poor man's Friend - Potato

14. Poor man's Food - Pearl Millet 

15. King of weed - Congress grass 

16. Drosophila of crop Plants - Maize 

17. King of coarse cereals - Sorghum

18. King of Fruits - Mango

19. Queen of fruits - Mangosteen 

20. King of Pulses - Gram 

21. Queen of Pulses - Pea

22. Queen of spices - Cardamom 

23. King of Flower - Dahalia 

24. Food of God - Cocoa

25. Queen of Beverage - Tea

26. Century plant - Date Palm

27. White gold - Cotton

28. Green Gold - Opium 

29. King of Arid Fruits - Ber 

30. Poor's men fruits - Ber 

31. King of Temperate Fruits - Apple 

32. Butter fruit - Avocado 

33. Adam's fig - Banana 

34. King of Forest - Teak 

35. King of Vegetable - Brinjal 

36. Queen of Spices - Cardamom 

37. Poor man's Orange - Tomato 

38. Poor man's Apple - Guava 

39. Love💗 Apple - Tomato

40. Queen of Oil Seeds - Sesame( TIL) 

41. King of Spices - Black Pepper 

43. Adam’s fig - Banana 

44. Kalpa Vriksha - Coconut 

45. Queen of Flowers - Rose 

46. Green Gold - Bamboo

47. Queen of Beaverage - Coffee 

48. Wonder Crop - Soybean 

49. Blanket Flower - Gaillardia

50. Miracle Fruit - Kiwi

51. King of Vegtables - Potato

52. Tree of Paradise - Banana 

53. Apple of Paradise - Banana

54. Monkey Jack - Jack Fruit 

55. Apple of Tropic - Guava 

56. King of Arid Fruits - Ber

 

57. Chinese Date - Ber

58. Chinese Fig - Ber 

59. Five Corner fruit - Carambola 

60. Star Apple - Phalsa 

61. King of Temperate Fruit - Apple

62. Queen of Nut - Pecanut

63. King of Nut - Walnut 

64. Gold mine of Wast land - Cashew 

65. Sapodilla Plum - Sapota 

66. Fancy Fruit - Mandarin 

67. Black Plum - Jamun 

68. Indian Black Berry - Jamun 

69. Black Plum - Jamun 

70. Black Eyed pea - Cowpea 

71. Indian Gooseberry - Anola 

72. Malacca Tree - Anola 

73. Wolf Apple - Tomato

74. Vilayati Baigan - Tomato 

75. Butter Bean - Lima Bean

76. Egg plant - Brinjal 

77. Kindney Bean - Frenchbean 

78. Indian Bean - Dolichos Bean 

79. Horse Bean - Broad bean

80. Vegetable of 20 century - WingedBean  

81. Potato Bean - Yam Bean 

82. Misrikand - Yam Bean

83. Balsam Pear - Bitter Gaurd 

84. Bitter Cucumber - Bitter Gaurd 

85. Vegetable of Immensd Value - Pumpkin

86. Wax Gaurd - Ash gaurd

87. Swiss Chord - Palak 

88. Beetleaf - Palak 

89. Horse Raddish Tree - Drumstick

90. Vegetable of 21 century - Chekurmanis 

91. White Gaurd - Ash gaurd

92. Aubergine - Brinjal

93. Faba Bean - Broad bean 

 94. Snap bean - Frenchbean

Important Agricultural Research Institutes

1. CRRI - Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Orrisa 

2. IIPR - Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur 

3. CTRI - Central Tobacco Research Institute, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh 

4. IISR - Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow 

5. SBI - Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore 

6. CICR - Central Institute of Cotton Research, Nagpur 

7. CRIJAF - Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, Barrackpore 

8. IGFRI - Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 

9. IIHR - Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore 

10. CISTH - Central Institute of Sub Tropical Horticulture, Lucknow 

11. CITH - Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar 

12. CIAH - Central Institute of Arid Horticulture, Bikaner 

13. IIVR - Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi 

14. CPRI - Central Potato Research Institute, Kufri, Shimla 

15. CTCRI - Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Trivandrum 

16. CPCRI - Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasargod 

17. CARI - Central Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair 

18. IISR - Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut 

19. CSWCRTI - Central Soil and Water Conservation Research & Training Institute, Dehradun 

20. IISS - Indian Institute of Soil Sciences, Bhopal 

21. CSSRI - Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal 

22. CRIDA - Central Research Institute of Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad 

23. CAZRI -  Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur 

24. NIASM - National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Malegaon, Maharashtra 

25. CIAE - Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal 

26. CIPHET - Central Institute on Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana 

27. IINRG - Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, Ranchi 

28. CIRCT - Central Institute of Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai 

29. IASRI - Indian Agricultural Statistical Research Institute, New Delhi 

30. CSWRI - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar, Rajasthan 

31. CIRG - Central Institute for Research on Goats, Makhdoom, Mathura 

32. CIRB - Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hissar 

33. NIANP - National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bangalore 

34. CARI - Central Avian Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly 

35. CMFRI - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi 

36. CIBA - Central Institute Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai 

37. NBPGR - National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi

38. NBSSLUP - National bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur (MH)

39. NBFGR - National bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow (UP)

40. NBAIM - National bureau of Agriculturally Important Micro-organisms, Mau, UP

41. NBAII - National bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects, Banglore (2009), Previously (PDBC - Project Directorate of Biological Control)

42. NAARM - National Academy of Agricultural Research and Management, Hyderabad

43. PDWMR - Project Directorate of Water Management Research, Patna (Bihar)

44. NICPM - National Center for Integrated Pest Management, New Delhi

45. DFR - Directorate of Floriculture Research, New Delhi

46. DRMR - Directorate of Rape Seed& Mustard Research, Sewar, Bharatpur, Rajasthan

47. APEDA - Agricultural and Processed Food Product Export Development Authority, New Delhi

48. IGSI - Indian Grain Storage Institute, Hapur, UP

49. NIRJAFT - National Institute of Research on Jute and Allied Fibre Technology, Calcutta, WB

50. ILRI - Indian Lac Research Institute, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Important International Agricultural Research Institutions 

1. AVRDC - Asian Vegetable Research and Development Centre, Taiwan 

2. CIP - Centro International dalaPapa (International potato research institute (Lima, Peru, South America)

3. CIMMYT - Centro International de Mejoramiento de Maizy Trigo (International Centre for maize and Wheat development (Londress, Mexico) 

4. IITA - International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Ibadon in Nigeria, Africa) 

5. ICARDA - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (Aleppo,Syria)

6. ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Pattancheru in Hyderabad, India) 

7. IIMI - International Irrigation Management Institute, Colombo, SRILANKA 

8. IRRI - International Rice Research Institute (Los Banos, Philippines) 

9. ISNAR - International Service In National Agricultural Research, The Hague, Netherlands 

10. WARDA - West African Rice Development Association, Ivory coast,Africa.

11. IBPGR - International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, Rome, Italy 

12. CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Washington D.C 

13. FAO - Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome 

14. WMO - World Meteorological Organization, Vienna. 

15. IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria

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