The open access movement in India is gaining momentum and the data from the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) shows that since 2004, nearly 80 scholarly repositories have been registered from India. Out of all repositories, three are listed in top 200 world repositories and repository of Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, ePrints@IISc is at world rank of 98. It is noteworthy that not many of the institutes which had established repositories are not having any mandate for open access. However, this movement is slow in the field of agriculture sciences as only four institutional repositories and one thematic have been established so far, the first being Indian Agriculture Research Institute repository ‘Eprints@IARI’ in 2009. The international organizations, viz., Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) and Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) are supporting open access in agriculture and they had organized two consultation meetings in Hyderabad organized during 2009 and outcome of these meetings is the establishment of Eprints@IARI. The agricultural research, education and extension in India is publicly funded and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is the apex body coordinating for the entire country and has about 97 institutes spread across the country working on various aspects. However, out of these institutes, only four have established institutional repositories. Therefore, a survey is being attempted among the institutes and repositories in ICAR to know authors, managers and policy makers attitude towards 'openness' and what are the strategies that are being adopted by the repository managers to populate the repositories when there is no formal open access policy adopted by the ICAR.