BRIEF ON CSIR-CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is the foremost national science and technology organization in Ghana. Established in 1964, the CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI) is the largest of the thirteen (13) institutes of the CSIR. The Institute provides innovative research and research-related services to the general public as well as other institutions.
The CSIR-CRI’s mission is to develop and disseminate demand-driven technologies
and build capacity for sustainable food and industrial crop productivity, with the vision
to become a Centre of Excellence for agricultural research, innovation and capacity
building for development.
The Institute’s core mandate is to conduct research and develop improved food and
industrial crop varieties and their production technologies to enhance food security
and poverty reduction. The mandate crops include: legumes (cowpea, soybean,
groundnut, canning beans and bambara groundnut), cereals (maize and rice), roots
and tubers (yam, cocoyam, cassava, taro and sweet potatoes), vegetables (pepper,
garden eggs, tomato, onion, okra and leafy vegetables), tropical fruits (citrus, mango,
avocado, cashew, pineapple, and pawpaw), and industrial crops (rubber and
sugarcane).
With Excellence, Fairness, Commitment, Transparency, Accountability and
Teamwork as our core values, the Institute aims to
• develop and disseminate appropriate technologies that are demand-driven and
acceptable to end-users.
• promote and strengthen strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders to
enhance the generation of solutions to challenges in agricultural research,
technology development and transfer.
• improve institutional capability to undertake effective research and service
delivery to enhance agricultural productivity.
• enhance research and technology delivery through efficient mobilization and
management of funds
• improve the management and operating procedures and systems as a means
of ensuring efficiency in research delivery.
In addition to our core mandate, the Institute also offers several services to various
stakeholders. These include but are not limited to the production of foundation seeds
for the National Seed Industry, the supply of healthy planting materials of citrus,
avocado, mango, plantain and banana cassava, cocoyam, sweetpotato, taro and
yam, the establishment of farms (tree crop plantations), , the production of extension
materials and advise on the use of appropriate experimental designs for field studies.
