Call for proposals – Fruits Research in India (2025)

2025 CFI grant proposal submission form

Please fill out this online form to apply for research grants from the Centre for Fruitful India. Please see the call for proposals here.

We value short and clear writing. Unnecessarily long proposals will be rejected. Prepare your responses in an offline document, take time to make them short and clear, then copy them into boxes in this online form. For each response, we have specified a character limit, but please do not stretch your response to fill the limit.

If you must edit the information after submission, you can submit another form. In this case, please use the same project title so we can replace the previous submission with the new one.

Deadline: 20October 2025

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Project Information

Research areas*
Select one to three areas from the list below that this project is focused on.

Unconventional modes of growing fruit trees that make efficient use of land, e.g., planting on wasteland, field bunds, community land, forest fringes, rooftops, and roadside.Climate resilience, including drought tolerance.Disease and pest tolerance.Providing high nutrition and yield.Intercropping of diverse species for year-around fruit production and other benefits.Community-led initiatives for post-harvest management, sharing, and value addition.Policies and incentives to promote widespread cultivation of diverse fruit trees.Other

Geographic location in which your research is focused*
You may also add information about whether you are targeting urban, peri-urban, rural, or forest fringe areas.

Describe the objective of your research*
Include the species/cultivars or the methods for planting/irrigation/maintenance that you are going to evaluate. You may choose to focus on either the species/cultivars or the methods, or address both together

Describe the methodology you will use to conduct the research, evaluate and document the results*
Remember that we value both positive and negative results, e.g., which species/cultivars/methods worked well, and which did not.

Describe the timeframe for this project*
If useful, divide the project into stages.

Describe the resources, including money, that this project will need.*