ICAR- Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research

In India, the wheat research started in an organized manner exactly a hundred years ago during the British period after the joining of Sir Howards as the Imperial Botanist at Pusa (Bihar) in 1905. Later on, with the establishment of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in 1929, it became the main funding agency and promoter of wheat research in India, and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), played an important role in the wheat Research related activities. In this process the establishment of the All India Coordinated Wheat Improvement Project (AICWIP) in 1965 by the ICAR. The AICWIP was elevated to the status of the Directorate of Wheat Research in 1978 and in 1990 it moved from IARI, New Delhi. In 2014, it became an institute, ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (IIWBR). IIWBR's mission is to ensure food security in India by enhancing the productivity and profitability of wheat and barley on an ecologically and economically sustainable basis and by making India the world leader in wheat production.