KVK established its tissue culture lab in the year 2002 with financial support from its host organization CARD. The lab was producing ornamental tissue cultural plants at lower quantities. However the lab facilities were primarily extended to the MSC biotechnology students from various colleges within and outside state, the student were guided by KVK experts. So far 76 numbers of such students had undergone research work at KVK lab and produced same number of thesis. The lab runs on its own from the income generated. This lab has been revived with financial support from NHM in the year 2008-2009 with a capacity to produce over 50000 tissue culture plants /year. Lab would primarily focus on the production of banana TC plants which is in high demand among the farmers especially with KVK popularized high density planting technology. The lab also provided tailor made training programme to rural youth. The lab is fully equipped to produce over 50,000 plantlets / year. The lab has also developed protocol of various banana (Nendran, Poojakadali, etc.) and orchid varieties. The lab has already produced and distributed about 15000 banana seedlings to farmers of the district and is a major source of tissue culture banana for various government programmes especially for NHM. The Plant tissue culture lab is managed by SMS (Horticulture) and is assisted by project staff and skilled workers.
