Latest News

• 11Jun, 2023
  The 24th Annual Group Meeting of AINP on Soil Arthropod Pests will be held at Rajasthan Agricultural Research Institute, Durgapura, Jaipur on 13-14 July, 2023 as per the approval of Indian Council of Agricultural Research

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• 1Mar, 2023
  Foundation for Agricultural Resources Management and Environmental Remediation (FARMER), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh- a Voluntary Center of ICAR-All India Network Project on Soil Arthropod Pests, is participating in PUSA KRISHI VIGYAN MELA (2-4 March 2023) at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012

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• 21Feb, 2023
  Participation in Annual Meetings

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Project Coordinator’s Message

The soil arthropod pests like, white grubs, termites, cutworms, root borer, wireworms, red ants, crickets, and phytophagous snails have become increasingly difficult pests throughout India with their increasing damage every year as evidenced by the several outbreaks that occurred over large areas during the recent past.

All India Network Project On Soil Arthropod Pests

Realizing the yield losses inflicted and seriousness of white grubs problem in several agricultural crops, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research started the "All India Coordinated Research Project on white-grubs" in 1982. In EFC Meeting held during 2014, the name of the project changed to "All India Network Project on Soil Arthropod Pests". With new aspiration and drive to coordinate location-specific research on soil arthropod pests management, now the project with sanctioned strength of small numbers of scientists to undertake the research work over a larger agro-ecological area three volunteer centres, Almora (Uttarakhand), Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) and Kolhapur (Maharashtra) are included besides the main centres viz., RARI, Durgapura (Rajasthan), AAU, Jorhat (Assam), UAS, Bengaluru (Karnataka), CSK HPKV, Palampur (Himachal Pradesh) and JAU, Junagadh (Gujarat).