National Referral Laboratory, National Research Centre for Grapes

31-03-2021

The ICAR-National Grapes Research Center under the Indian Agricultural Research Council (ICAR), New Delhi was created in Manjri, Pune on 18 January 1997. The Institute's mandate is: Strategic and implemented study on secure manufacturing and productivity of grapes. Technology transfer and stakeholder capacity building for improved and sustained grape manufacturing. National Food Safety and Pesticide Residue Referral Laboratory in Fruit. India's grape growers were among the first to form a cohesive non-political, non-racial and non-religious community for information sharing and technical and administrative support for the wine sector in all aspects of wine manufacturing, handling and marketing. The group approached the Indian Council of Agricultural Research to set up a specialized studies unit to work on grapes due to several issues experienced by grape growers with regard to grape manufacturing and to solve their issues. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research therefore endorsed the establishment of the National Research Center for Grapes vide sanction letter No.1 (2)/92-PI&M (Part-III) of 16 September 1993 after due deliberation on the studies requirements of grape growers and the wine sector and also to address future problems and possibilities. ICAR's then Director-General, Dr. R. S. Paroda, and Horticultural Division's Deputy Director-General, Dr. K. L. Chadha, played a very significant part in setting up the Centre. Dr. S.P. Ghosh, then Assistant Director-General of the Horticultural Division, and Dr. S. D. Shikhamany, Head, Fruit Crops Division, I.I.H.R., Bangalore, Special Duty Officer, Indian Horticultural Research Institute, Bangalore, helped them ably.