TIGR2ESS: An interdisciplinary project to revitalize agriculture sustainably in India
Gori Bi, a landless widow with two kids, works on other farmers’ fields for wages in a small village in Telangana. She Read more...
‘Historic’ India Millet Mission campaign to begin in September
Road-map for National Year of Millets 2018, presented Hyderabad, 25 August 2018| The largest producer of millets in the world, India, will Read more...
China’s crop scientists keen on greater genomic research collaboration with ICRISAT
Accelerating the development of improved varieties of select crops using genomic technologies was one of the key topics discussed by China’s leading Read more...
Enhancing potential of African partners in the food processing sector
As part of an initiative of the Government of India under India Africa Forum Summit III, ICRISAT’s Agribusiness and Innovation Platform organized Read more...
East African Community Vision 2050: Is it water-proof?
At a recent project planning meeting with the Lake Victoria Basin Commission at the East African Community, participating members agreed to quantify Read more...
CSIRO and ICRISAT to team up for nutrition via better agricultural value chains
A team of scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, visited ICRISAT to develop a joint work plan Read more...
Feed The Future, USAID, features ICRISAT’s Digital Agriculture work as a case study
As part of a series on the integration of digital technologies into agricultural programs, ICRISAT’s work on digital agriculture was featured as Read more...
High-level Smart Food pitch at Crawford Fund Conference in Australia’s Parliament House
Australian Foreign Minister calls it an ‘exciting breakthrough’ Can we change global diets so they get smarter – more nutritious and more Read more...
Three sorghum varieties released in Nigeria
Nigeria’s National Committee on Variety Naming, Registration and Release on 26 July 2018, approved the registration and release of two medium-maturing sorghum varieties, SAMSORG 47 as ZAUNA-INUWA, SAMSORG 48 as KAURA BORNU, and an early medium-maturing variety, SAMSORG 49 as CF35:5, in Nigeria.
Modern, cutting-edge, collaborative – management of breeding data receives a boost across Africa
A hackathon, data migration and capacity building – it was a busy month for ICRISAT’s efforts to modernize databases and strengthen breeding Read more...