The Central Island Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-CIARI), Port Blair has establish a Pandanus Gene Bank at its Garacharma Research Farm under the project funded by National Medicinal Plants Board, New Delhi, to conserve, evaluate and utilise different species of the Pandanus collected from different parts of Andaman and Nicobar.
A total of 175 seedlings of various species are planted in 2.0 acre of terraced land at ICAR-CIARI campus, and as part of World Coconut Day 2022 celebrations, thirty seedlings of five released coconut varieties are also planted in the field gene bank.
