KGRP (Kasaragod-based Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI) has launched an online training programme — Kalpa Graduate Readiness Programme — for final year BSc (Agriculture/Horticulture) students from across the country)
A 12-week-long Kalpa Graduate Readiness Programme aims to empower young professionals on latest technologies for production and processing of coconut, arecanut and cocoa.

- INDEX -

• 1 - Coconut nursery:An emerging enterprise
• 2 - Arecanut improvement
• 3 - Cocoa improvement
• 4 - Coconut based cropping sysytem
  Integrated farming system models
• 5 - Nutrition management in coconut
  gardens soil health management
• 6 - Recycling farm wastes
• 7 - Organic farming
• 8 - Irrigation management in coconut
• 9 - Isolation and utilization of bio-inoculants
• 10 - Soil and water conservation techniques
• 11 - Pest management in coconut, arecanut
  and cocoa
• 12 - Pest management: Part 2
• 13 - Diagnosis and management of coconut
  diseases
• 14 - Disease management in Arecanut and
  cocoa
• 15 - 'Hotspot' breeding with special reference
  to root (wilt) disease of coconut
• 16 - Statistical techniques in agricultural
  research- fundamentals
• 17 - Statistical techniques in agricultural
  experiments
• 18 - Fundamental and conceptual design of
  coconut processing machineries
• 19 - Post harvest technology in plantation
  crops
• 20 - Socio economic aspects of plantation
  crops