1. Sustainable agriculture, food and nutritional security
2. Climate change and Indian agriculture
3. Root and tuber crops-their potential to thrive in climate change
4. Biodiversity and genetic improvement
5. Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
6. Integrated crop management
7. Post harvest management
8. Value addition and  product diversification
9. Pre and post harvest machineries
10. Under utilized and medicinal root and tubers
11. Transfer of technology, marketing and commercialization
12. IPR issues and information management