Plant resources survey: floristic survey, ethno botany, phytochemical screening, identification of plants of Orissa and adjoining states and establishment of herbarium.

Agrotechnology: plant improvement and development of agro technology for Palmarosa, Lemongrass, Citronella, Patchouli, Ocimum, Cinnamon, Kewda, Ambrette, Cola nitida, Vetiver, Catharanthus, Rubber, Simarouba, bamboos and fast growing tree species.

Seed to sheet making in rubber: Cultivation practices of rubber, bud grafting, inter cropping, latex extraction, processing and finally sheet making.

Promotion of commercial cultivation of promising crops: technical know- how, supply of planting material of improved genotypes and oil extraction.

Plant biotechnology: improvement of micro-propagation of selected economic plants and providing know how for setting up commercial plant tissue culture laboratory.

Reclamation of mine overburden through plantation: soil amendments, revegitation.

Process development for organic fine chemicals.

Essential Oils and Fragrance Chemicals.

Organic Synthesis.

Dyes as fabric colourants.