Biofortified crops to combat malnutrition in Nigeria

Mr Aliyu Adinoyi, Scientific Officer, explaining about displayed crops and products to Senator Lokpobiri. Photo: Hakeem Ajeigbe, ICRISAT

Biofortified crops to combat malnutrition in Nigeria

14 Apr 2017

Biofortified sorghum and pearl millet were the focus of a recent exhibition at Abuja, Nigeria. Two sorghum varieties – improved Deko and...

Participants at mini-symposium of University of Leeds and ICRISAT. Photo: ICRISAT.

Strengthening research collaboration with UK

14 Apr 2017

Researchers from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and ICRISAT-India pledged to pool resources and share knowledge in order to achieve accelerated...

Farmer Martin Lumala (center) explaining a point to the press. Photo: Daniel Ajaku, ICRISAT

Drought-tolerant crops to the rescue in Kenya

07 Apr 2017

Replacing maize with drought-tolerant crops such as sorghum, millets, pigeonpea, cowpea and green gram is helping farmers overcome the failure of rains...

A Field Day organized at an ICCV 92944 field in Bangladesh. Photo: PRC, Ishurdi, Bangladesh

New variety of chickpea helps Bangladeshi farmers fight climate change

07 Apr 2017

A new variety of chickpea, which is heat-tolerant, resistant to Botrytis grey mold (BGM) and also high-yielding, was released as BARI Chola-10...

Basic seed planning meeting between ASA, NARI and ICRISAT members. Photo: H Daudi, NARI

Partnering for sustainable groundnut seed systems in Tanzania

07 Apr 2017

A partnership to facilitate a sustainable groundnut seed delivery system in Tanzania was established between the Tropical Legumes III (TL III) project...

Combating Aflatoxin for a healthy world

07 Apr 2017

What you see may not be what you get: The case of peanut butter Ever wondered what processes the mouth-watering peanut...

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« Mar				May »
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30

April 2017