Mandate & Objectives
The mandate of TBGRI is to undertake relevant R&D activities leading to inventory, conservation and
sustainable utilization of the tropical plant wealth of Kerala in particular and that of India in general.
 
 
Fig.20. IIN-India Core Committee members with TBGRI staff

Towards achieving this, besides grants received from the Council, the Institute operates time bound programmes and projects, with financial assistance from International, National and State Funding Agencies. These programmes are implemented through the following R&D divisions:

  1. Horticulture & Garden Development
  2. Plant Biotechnology
  3. Plant Systematics & Evolutionary Science
  4. Conservation Biology
  5. Phytochemistry
  6. Ethno-pharmacology & Ethno-medicine
  7. Microbiology
  8. Library & Information Services

The proclaimed objectives of TBGRI are:

  1. To make a comprehensive survey of the economic plant wealth of Kerala.
  2. To conserve, preserve and exploit the plant wealth of Kerala.
  3. To introduce, cultivate and culture plants of India/other countries with comparable climatic condition for the economic benefit of Kerala and India.
  4. To carry out botanical, horticultural and chemical research for plant improvement and utilization.
  5. To offer facilities for the improvement of ornamental plants and to propagate them in the larger context of establishment of nursery and flower trade.
  6. To organize germplasm collections of economic plants of interest to the state in the case of those species for which separate centers are not already in existence.
  7. To establish a model production center for translating the fruits of research to public advantage leading to plant-based industrial ventures.
  8. To engage in activities, conducive to help botanical teaching and to create public understanding of the value of plant research in general, and the need for preserving our plant wealth.
  9. To establish an arboretum in approximately half the area of the Garden, with representative specimens of trees of Kerala and India, and trees of economic value from other tropical areas of the world.
  10. To establish a garden consisting of medicinal plants, ornamental plants and various introduced plants of economic or aesthetic value.
  11. To establish laboratories for botanical, horticultural and chemical research, with the aim of improvement and utilization of plants of medicinal and ornamental value.
 
 
Fig.21. A traditional model at TBGRI
 		  
 
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