•To enhance food security in Iran through crop breeding for adapted high yielding cultivars with good end-use quality to guarantee stable production.
•To increase farmers income through developing agro-technique packages.
•To produce basic and foundation seed for the newly released or introduced cultivars for different ecologies in the country.
•To conserve plant genetic resources and utilize them in crop breeding programs.
•To train pioneer farmers for transferring research and technology findings to the producers.