Current Activities

The institute activities are conducted through 2 major functions.
I- Conduction of research and studies at the experiment stations and the growers of horticulture crops’ fields which grouped as follow:
1- Propagation studies on horticultural crops.
2- Breeding research and production of new hybrids vegetable crops.
3- Selection of new strains of high yield and good quality.
4- Agronomy practices development under different irrigation systems.
5- Evaluation of new imported hybrid seeds of vegetable crops under local conditions for high productivity and quality.
6- Developing the postharvest treatments through using new techniques for high fruit quality suitable for local and foreign markets and spread these new techniques through the extension programs.
7- Conducting researches on the wild plants under the Egyptian condition to propagate them and to identify the methods of utilization to get benefit of these plants.
8- Developing and improving the productivity of horticultural crops.
9- Conducting research to overcome the problems resulting from the environmental stress conditions.
10- Identifying the finger-prints of horticultural crop species.
11- Modernization and improving the propagation methods of horticulture crops.
12- Lowering the consumption rate of chemicals in the production of the horticultural crops by improving biological agricultural practices to conserve the human healthy and lowering the environmental pollution.
13- Developing vegetable production under protecting conditions (plastic-houses-tunnels etc).
14- Enhancing the production of medicinal and aromatic plants through developing high yielding varieties, modernization the agronomic practices and applying the new techniques for the extraction of active ingredients.
15- Enhancing the production and quality of wood trees and their secondary income.
16- Development of ornamental plants and fresh cut flower production as well as t