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New Delhi : The Kalahandi District of Odisha produces Soybean on a very limited scale. The ICAR had established a national level research Institute on Soybean in 1987 named ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore (Madhya Pradesh), to conduct basic and strategic research on the crop.
Besides this, ICAR is also implementing an All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Soybean since 1967 in association with the State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) to develop location-specific high yielding varieties and production technologies required to increase Soybean production in the country.
The ICAR-AICRP on Soybean has one voluntary center at Regional Research & Technology Transfer Station, Bhawanipatna (Kalahandi) under Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar. This station is undertaking need-based and location-specific research on Soybean for hot and moist sub-humid climate of Odisha in Kalahandi, Bolangir, and Koraput, according to a PIB release.
This information was given in a written reply by Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in Rajya Sabha on February 5, 2021.