International organizations team up to power new and smarter foods
How do we tackle some of the biggest and critical global nutritional health/environmental issues in unison? How could we achieve greater impact Read more...
New high-oil variant draws farmers to groundnut production in western India
On the scenic slopes of Western Ghats, fondly called ‘Sahyadris’ or the benevolent mountains in the state of Maharashtra, the groundnut is Read more...
Research in rural economics and social science vital to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals
The 26th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Research Association (AERA), India, focused on Agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Read more...
Digital agriculture holds great promise for agricultural development
One of the first things that occurs to me when I think about Digital Agriculture is the ICT4D conference. ICRISAT has been Read more...
Three weeks to make tastier, healthier crop residues for animal feed
A 21-day treatment process to improve the nutritive value as well as taste of crop residues as feedstock has been demonstrated in Read more...
Not just maize: Africa’s fall Armyworm crisis threatens sorghum, other crops, too
Scientists from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Niger say that 99 percent of the media and Read more...
How ICRISAT saved a lifetime’s worth of water over just three years
ICRISAT-Patancheru has been saving over 100,000 liters of potable water every day since 2015. That is enough water for an adult to Read more...
Top honour for ICRISAT’s Dr Rajeev K Varshney
Receives American Society of Agronomy fellowship for contributions to Genomics & Molecular breeding Hyderabad, 22 November 2018: The American Society of Agronomy Read more...
New methods in implementing an irrigation scheme bring notable impact
Efficient water use, higher crop yields and improved farmer incomes Impacts of huge investments in irrigation schemes in Africa are often not Read more...
Significant progress in pearl millet pre-breeding to develop drought- and blast-resistant varieties
Efforts to develop pearl millet with improved resistance to drought and blast disease recently got a major boost. The identification of promising Read more...