Vision 2025 - National Research Centre for Grapes

• Over dependence on single rootstock and selected commercial variety is posing problem in
reducing yield, quality and increasing disease and pest incidence.
• Introduction of planting material without proper certification may lead to new disease and
pest incidence with reduced yield.
• Unpredicted weather during berry development stage may reduce yield and quality due to
increased pest and disease incidence.
• Competition from Chile, South Africa and Brazil and new emerging countries is the most
potential threat to grape exports from India during March / April due to poorer quality of
Indian grapes.
7. PERSPECTIVE
In the last half a century, commercial grape cultivation has shown a slow and steady growth in area
and production of grapes for table purpose and for raisin making. The high cost of cultivation, poor
quality of fruits, limited markets and risk in cultivation due to adverse environmental conditions, has
been the major impediment in growth of table grapes. However, the last decade has seen a very sharp
rise in cultivation of wine grape varieties for wine making.
The industry needs research support for new improved table, raisin and wine varieties with better
stress tolerance, technologies for sustainable quality production for various end uses at economical
prices, post harvest technologies for value addition and in view of the growing demands for organic
products, production of grapes with minimum chemical inputs.
Considering the research carried out in the past, it's impact and output, lessons learnt from the
analysis of all the considered inputs and the scenario and SWOT analysis of grape sector in the
country, following are the salient features of the perspective plan for research in grape:
1. Emphasis on development of package of practices for wine grapes and standardization of
enological techniques.
2. Production of elite, true to type, disease free planting material of commercially important
varieties and rootstocks
3. Reduce in the total cost of production of grapes considering training system, material used for
training system, enhanced efficiency of various inputs viz. fertilizers, water, agrochemicals and
introduction of modern tools, machines and other means to reduce the labour cost and their
drudgery.
4. Sustain the productivity of grapes under the various abiotic and biotic stresses.
5. Enhanced stress on the quality of fresh fruits and its processed products in the context of national
and international quality standards with due consideration to the economics of production.
6. Minimizing dependence on agrochemicals with more use of permitted organic sources of
bioregulators, nutrients and pesticides to promote eco-friendly / organic viticulture.
7. Extending cultivation of grapes in potential non traditional areas thus increasing per capita
availability of grapes in the country and improving economic status of the farmers
8. Promoting off season cultivation of grapes to catch the lean market period and value addition for
better price realization
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