The mission of this tissue culture laboratory is to provide millions of plants/ plantlets/ materials for the commercial crop market. This technology is expected to have an ever-increasing impact on crop improvement as we approach the new millennium. By establishing this technology, we will produce 50,000 potato plantlets in 2010-11, which will be multiplied into 5 MT of Breeder seed potato. In 2011-12, we will produce 200,000 potato plantlets, which will be multiplied into 20 MT of Breeder seed potato.
Subsequently the volume of potato plantlet production will be increased. From the breeder seed potato, we will be able to cater to the demands of the potato farmers in 2012-13, after producing the foundation seed potato, which will be approximately 50-60 MT.
