ICRISAT and DOR Sign Memorandum of Agreement, August, 2001

ICRISAT has offered 8 hectares of excess Vertisol (black soil) land on its campus at Patancheru to the Directorate of Oilseeds Research (DOR), Hyderabad, for oilseed multiplication.
A Memorandum of Agreement signed between the two institutes allows staff from DOR to multiply their mandate crops - safflower, castor, and sunflower - on the land offered by ICRISAT.

The Agreement, which will remain in effect for 20 years, was jointly signed by Dr. D. M. Hegde, Project Director, DOR, and Dr. William Dar, Director General, ICRISAT.