This is a technology developed by the CORE team to raise drought resistant coffee by grafting commercial varieties in tree coffee a wild variety with strong root system.

CORE team adopted various organic farming technologies from R&D organizations includes Trichoderma harzianum, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Entamo Panthogenic Nematode (EPN), Metarihizium anisopliae, Beauveria bassiana. We mass multiplied them in the microbiology laboratory and supplied to the far

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Generally stem cuttings are used for vanilla cultivation but in the last few years due to serious Fusarium infections almost all the vanilla vines destroyed. So we developed a protocol for mass multiplication of vanilla by shoot tip culture. The developed plantlets showed vigorous growth.

This is a technology for producing true to type planting material in black pepper from nucellar tissues. CORE team developed two media, solid and liquid medium with defined combinations using MS medium as base. By this method CORE team successfully produced true to type and disease free planting

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Major problems faced by the rubber farmers are mono-cropping and price fluctuations. CORE team developed a package for solving this issue by developing a package for multilayer farming using black pepper and cocoa. For the successful demonstration of the technology we have standardized the spacin

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One of the major problems in pepper cultivation is no viable technology for rejuvenation of old plants. So farmers are adopting replanting of the old plantation but this is not affordable for small and marginal farmers. So The CORE scientist developed a new method of rejuvenation to solve these p

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In the conventional harvesting method farmers are collecting only the pepper spikes which initiatesonly one sprout each branch, in the modified harvesting method CORE team recommends to harvest spikes and a portion of apical meristem of the branch. So the meristematic activity in the lower nodes

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CORE team introduced improved varieties of ginger and turmeric from Indian Institute of Spices Research and Kerala Agriculture University. These varieties have high content of Oleoresin and Curcumin as compared to traditional cultivars. So the produce get good market acceptance in the internation

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This is an innovative low cost technology ideal for high density planting in banana (HDP). HDP is gaining popularity in Kerala in the last few years, but the cost of cultivation is high because farmers need three suckers instead of one sucker. So for solving this problem CORE team developed a low

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A survey conducted by the CORE team in Idukki district proved that almost 70% of the planted stem cuttings were not surviving due to strong summer and high systemic infections whichdiminished black pepper production every year. For solving the issue CORE team developed a package for seed germinat

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Core team observed that low nitrogen content of paddy straw (substrate), insufficient air circulation in mush room growth chamber and clump drying are the major problems leading to bioefficiency.

Technologies Developed

• Developed a growth prom
  
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