Information on Groundnut cultivation State-wise

The ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research (ICAR-DGR), a premier institute of its kind in the world was established in the year 1979 to give a fillip to research for enhancing productivity of groundnut in keeping with its importance among the oilseed crops of India. This Directorate came in to being in the Saurashtra region of the Gujarat in the Junagadh city as the first crop commodity research unit under the category of NRC’s (National Research Centres) of the ICAR. This was elevated to the level of a Directorate in the year 2009 and rechristened as the Directorate of Groundnut Research (DGR). Besides in-house research projects, an umbrella research project ‘All India Coordinated Research Project on Groundnut’ or AICRPG in short, also operates from this Directorate.