ICAR-CPRI Ooty, one of the research stations of ICAR-CPRI,  is located in the tropical hills in southern India. The research programmes at the station are development of agro-techniques for potato cultivation, development of varieties possessing combined resistance to late blight and cyst nematode and to develop control measures for late blight, cyst nematode, bacterial wilt and other soil and tuber-borne diseases.