Exploration and Collection of Crop Germplasm from Eastern Parts of Arunachal Pradesh

Survey and collection of multi-crop germplasm from Arunachal Pradesh was executed in three different trips, during November to December to collect the indigenous crop germplasm diversity and other economic plants. These exploration trips concerted in East, West and Upper Siang districts of eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh. These explorations were conducted in a way keeping in view of the period of maturity and harvest of collected germplasm. These trips were yielded a total of 553 different crop germplasm collected from 49 different sites with an altitudinal variation between 183 to 1100 m above msl. The crop group wise break-up of collections is cereal (188), pseudocereals (51), grain legumes (78), vegetables (86), oilseeds crop (21), spices (66), tuber crop (22), fruit crops (38) and other crops (03). Local indigenous technical knowledge practiced by the farmers on some crops was also recorded during exploration. Extents of diversity with in the collected accessions have been summarized in this paper.