About

The CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI) was established in 1964 and is one of the 13 Institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of Ghana.

CRI is a center for Crops Research and Development. CRI's Mission is to ensure high and sustainable crop productivity and food security through development and dissemination of environmentally sound technologies.

The research mandate of CSIR-CRI covers the following food and industrial crops:

-Cereals (maize and rice)
-Legumes (cowpea, soybean, groundnut and Bambara groundnut)
-Roots and tubers (cassava, yam, sweet potato and cocoyam)
-Horticultural crops
-Plantain and banana
-Tropical fruits (citrus, mango, avocado, pineapple, cashew and pawpaw)
-Vegetables (pepper, garden eggs, tomato, onion and leafy vegetables)
-Industrial crops (rubber, sugar cane and tobacco).

The objectives of CRI are to:

-Develop improved crop varieties that are high yielding and resistant/tolerant to important biotic and abiotic stresses and have good quality characteristics.
-Develop improved production technologies for sustainable production
-Assist achieve food security and self sufficiency in industrial raw material production
-Play a leading role in the diversification of agricultural production in Ghana