Awards

Lab awards

• CSIR award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development (CAIRD) for the year 2010.
• Innovation for India Awards 2010 by Marico Innovation Foundation
• Titanium Trophy in 2008 and 1997 for best R&D laboratory of Defence R&D Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Govt of India.
• Defence Technology Spin-off Award 2007 and 2003 of Defence R&D Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Govt of India.
• Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra Award for the year 1993 by Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Govt. of India.

Guinness World Record

The extreme altitude research station at Changla is in the Guinness World Records (2017) as the highest altitude terrestrial research station (17,664 ft) in the world.

Limca Book of Records

• The only institute in the world at an altitude of 11,500 feet above mean sea level working in the area of high altitude agro-animal technologies.
• Growing of 101 types of vegetables in a single season in the same field in Leh Ladakh.
• Documented growing of extra large size of vegetables in Ladakh.