About CIAH Bikaner:
Amid V-five year arrange a specially appointed task under AP Cess reserve plan was begun by Indian Council of Agricultural Research in 1976 at 10 focuses for directing examination on some chose natural products in semi-bone-dry ranges of India. Amid VI arrange, this specially appointed plan was converged in that capacity and named as Cell III of All India Coordinated Fruit Improvement Project (AICFIP). Amid VII arrangement, AICFIP was rebuilt to shape a free venture entitled All India Coordinated Research Project on Arid Zone Fruits (AICRP on AZF) with its base camp at HAU, Hisar. The work system of this anticipate was subsequently limited to multilocation testing of advancements of some chose natural products being created by rather insufficient labor and base inputs either in ICAR Institutes or in State Agricultural Universities. In this way, understanding the capability of plant harvests in bone-dry zone and need to accomplish nourishing and pay security for the general population, the ICAR had built up National Research Center for Arid Horticulture (NRCAH) amid VII arrangement after endorsement of Indian Planning Commission, as suggested by the Working Group on Agricultural Research and Education. The Project Coordinator (Arid Zone Fruits) was alloted extra obligation of Officer on Special Duty to screen the advancement of NRCAH in November 1990.The area for its foundation was procured in November, 1992 at a site near premises of Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner. In April, 1993 the Project Coordinator alongside the foundation of AICRP on AZF was moved from HAU, Hisar to Bikaner, which really began working at Beechwal, Bikaner from September, 1994. In the wake of envisioning the advancement made by NRCAH in limited ability to focus time and future needs of the parched locale, on 27th September, 2000, the NRCAH was hoisted to undeniable Institute as Central Institute for Arid Horticulture, Bikaner (CIAH) and Central Horticultural Experiment Station (CHES), Godhra, Gujarat (Earlier under IIHR, Bangalore) was converged as its Regional Center on October first, 2000. Two division i.e. Division of Crop Production and Division of Crop Improvement has been made amid month of August 2013.
