The project ‘Plant source based environmentally safe crop protection and production technologies: Development and capacity building’ denoted hereafter as PPPT is a Niche Area of Excellence Programme funded by Education Division, ICAR and managed by ICAR-IARI, New Delhi. The PPPT project, led by Division of Agricultural Chemicals, ICAR-IARI, is aimed at Creation of enabling environment for capacity building on safe crop protection technologies and on-farm practices that includes R&D and Education on plant Waste Recycling and Resource Recovery System (WRRRS) and creation of web enabled National Phytochemical database at the core of the scheme. The principal goal of the PPPT project is collaboratively ensuring consumer and environmental safety through capacity building on use of safe biopesticidal and resource management alternatives to synthetic options in crops. The project started on 14 th January 2019 and continues through to December 2021.
There is no such database exist in literature which contains all the information about phytochemical based crop protection and production technologies. Unavailability of these information restricts students and researchers to do further research in this area. That motivates us to develop a phytochemical knowledge based system for crop protection and production technology.