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  Application for six months M.Sc. project will be invited during April 2010 (for July-Dec 2010) :||: Announcement for summer training 2010 will appear in the end of Febuary.
       The Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Calicut a constituent body of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is a major Institute devoted to research on spices. In 1976, it started as a Regional Station of the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI), Kasaragod engaged in research on spices.

A National Research Centre for Spices was established in 1986 with its headquarters at Calicut, Kerala by merging the erstwhile Regional Station of CPCRI at Calicut and Cardamom Research Centre at Appangala, Karnataka. Realising the importance of Spices Research in India this Research Centre was upgraded to Indian Institute of Spices Research on 1st July, 1995.

 
    Media Meet at IISR
      The Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Calicut has organised a Media Meet on Monday, 9th November 2009 at its campus as part of the NAIP sub-project on 'Mobilising Mass Media Support for Sharing Agro-Information'. Around 30 media persons from the 20 leading media organizations in the state, including newspapers, television channels and agricultural magazines, participated in the event.