NRPPD

National Research Programme on Plantation Development

NRPPD at CDS undertakes policy-oriented research on socio-economic aspects of India’s plantation sector. The programme was set up in 2009 supported by a generous endowment of Rs 5 crores, provided by the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.

The programme works under the overall guidance of a Steering Committee chaired by the Chairman, CDS and a Research Advisory Committee (RAC), Chaired by the Director, CDS. Prof Vinoj Abraham was appointed coordinator of the programme in May 2019. He was designated as Professor, Ministry of Commerce Chair for period of 3 years with effect from 5th November 2021.

NRPPD presently does the following activities

Conduct in-house research on India’s plantation sector
Conduct capacity building and training programmes for research in plantation sector
Conduct webinars/seminars of relevance to plantation sector
Disseminate in-house research and external research through research abstracts

During more than a decade of its existence the programme had successfully generated a rich volume of research on the plantation sector. Its research has evinced much interest among policy makers and academics alike.

Ongoing Projects

Profitability and Productivity of Small Tea Growers (STGs) in Assam and West Bengal

Study Team: Prof. Vinoj Abraham (CDS), Dr. Sachu Sara Sabu (CDS), and Dr. Abdul Hannan (Sikkim University)

Assessing the Impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) on India’s plantation sector: A Case Study of cardamom

Study Team: Prof. Vinoj Abraham (CDS), Prof. C Veeramani (CDS) and Dr. Sachu Sara Sabu (CDS)

Recently completed projects

How to confront the challenges in creating Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in coffee? (PI: Prof. Vinoj Abraham)
A study on the performance of Self-Help Groups of Small Tea Growers (STGs) in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu (PI: Prof. Thiagu Ranganathan)

Knowledge Resources

Compendium on the Plantation Sector in India: A collection of papers on the plantation sector by faculty of CDS, researchers from Commodity Boards and other research institutions.
A Database on Plantation Sector: NRPPD@CDS is now developing a website that compiles data on various aspects of the plantation sector in an easily accessible manner. This will be available soon on the CDS website.