Sugarcane Breeding Institute
[3] The institute was established as a sugarcane research station under the Department of Agriculture, Madras Presidency funded by the then British Government.[4] In 1932, a new center at Karnal was established with the funds sanctioned by the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research.In 1962, a new research center was established in Kannur to house the world collection of sugarcane germplasm.[5] The institute was involved in early research into hybridization, a first attempt to improve the subtropical types of sugarcanes.[6][7] The sugarcane varieties introduced were exported to Cuba and the United States.