During XII plan period the ICAR-Project Directorate for Farming Systems Research (ICAR-PDFSR)  officially renamed as Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research (IIFSR) and it established with focus on farming systems research after re-naming the Project Directorate for Cropping Systems Research (PDCSR) which became operational during 2009. The AICRP on IFS formed after re-organizing the setup of AICRP on Cropping System. IIFSR has coordination unit of All India Coordinated Research Project on Integrated farming Systems Research with 42 On-station research centres with Main Centres-25 and Sub Centres-12 along with, and 5 ICAR based opted centres and 32 On-farm research centres located at various places all over India. In addition a network project on Organic Farming with 13 centers is also based at PDFSR.