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Mangalore, Dec. 9 The National Research Centre for Cashew (NRCC) at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district will host the 18th Plantation Crops Symposium (Placrosym) during December 10-13.

Dr M.G. Bhat, General Chairman of the symposium, told Business Line that nearly 300 scientists working on various plantation crops would come together under a single platform at the symposium. The Puttur-based NRCC is organising the Placrosym for the first time.

The theme of the Placrosym-XVIII is “achieving competitiveness through improvement of productivity and quality in plantation crops”. There will be six technical sessions in the symposium.

He said it was started with an objective to bring scientists working on different plantation crops to a common platform for interaction and exchange of ideas and technologies developed in various member institutions, and to formulate strategies to solve the problems in plantation sector.

The first Placrosym was held in Kottayam in Kerala in 1978, and thereafter it is being held biennially at different research institutes engaged in research and development of plantation crops in the country. The crops include arecanut, cashew, cocoa, coconut, coffee, oil palm, rubber, spices and tea.

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