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The All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology (AICRPAM ) was started during May 1983 with
its Coordinating Unit at the Central Research Institute for Dryland
Agriculture, Hyderabad and ten Cooperating Centres at Anantapur,
Anand, Bangalore, Hisar, Jabalpur, Ludhiana, Mohanpur,Ranchi,
Solapur and Varanasi.The programme was strengthened during VII Plan
by starting two new centres, viz., Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu and
Ranichauri in the hill region of Uttar Pradesh. The Varanasi centre
was shifted to Faizabad in 1990 . The programme was further
strengthened during VIII Plan with the addition of 13 new centres
with effect from April 1995 at Akola, Arjia (Rajasthan),
Bhubaneswar, Bijapur, Dapoli, Jorhat, Kanpur, Palampur, Parbhani,
Raipur, Rakh Dhiansar (Jammu), Samastipur and Thrissur, thus
covering 25 SAUs in the
country.
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