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Spices Research in India was initiated almost 50 years ago and it underwent many developmental changes. ICAR launched a major project for the first time to organize spices research in the country by establishing the AICRPS. The AICRPS was originally initiated as a combined project of spices and cashew under the name All India Coordinated Spices & Cashew Improvement Project (AICSCIP) during 1971 with its headquarters at Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Kasaragod. In order to give adequate and undivided attention to spices, the combined project was bifurcated and an independent All India Coordinated Research Project On Spices came to existence in 1986 with its headquarters at Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Calicut, Kerala...

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