Vision Documents

ICAR-CIRCOT is set for the journey to 2050 with a vision of achieving “Global Excellence in Cotton Technology” by creating a sustainable cotton processing and value addition in harmony with Human Health, Society and Environment, besides establishing itself as a textile hub for the technologies, machines, processes & products that will augment the concept of “Make in India”, HRD and referral services to the South East Asian and African Countries.

In this VISION 2030 document, CIRCOT has critically focussed its perspective for the coming two decades and prepared the strategies to attain its vision. By realising vision embedded in the document through the proposaed strategies will reaffirm CIRCOT as a one-stop solution provider for issues on cotton technology.

The revolutionary changes in economic and trade laws that swept across the globe by the end of the last millennium and the liberalization of Indian economy have had their impact on the agricultural and industrial activity in the country. Coupled with this, the sudden explosion in information technology and development of agricultural biotechnology and nanotechnology in the recent past have strengthened the perception of agriculture as a means of entrepreneurship development and business promotion rather than as a source of subsistence. The World Bank assisted National Agricultural Technology programme successfully carried out in the recent past and the vision of ICAR have made a strong case in favour of public-private partnership in agricultural research and in commercialization of technologies. Under these changed circumstances it has become necessary to revisit Vision 2020 document prepared earlier by the Institutes and look at the priorities and programmes afresh with an outlook for 2025. The perspective plan documents are expected to give a broad outline of the research agenda for the coming 20 years taking into account the past performance, success and failures with a reoriented research agenda in tune with the future outlook both at the domestic and global level. The first draft of the perspective plan Vision 2025 was prepared almost two years ago. Subsequently it has been discussed at the Research Advisory Committee and Management Committee and modified accordingly with the inputs received from the hon‘ble members. A peer review team both at the Institute level as well as at ICAR had after scrutiny made suggestions for improvement. Those suggestions have been duly incorporated in the final version of the perspective plan document of CIRCOT