Millet-based diet can lower risk of type 2 diabetes and help manage blood glucose levels
A new study has shown that eating millets can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and helps manage blood glucose levels in people with diabetes, indicating the potential to design appropriate meals with millets for diabetic and pre-diabetic people as well as for non-diabetic people as a preventive approach. Read more...
Sustainable food production and agriculture key to better nutrition and incomes in Africa
The conventional approaches of agriculture, with industrial systems of production, specialization in few commodities, mechanization and economies of scale, may not necessarily Read more...
ICRISAT to share expertise on sorghum production with farmers in Somalia
ICRISAT is collaborating with the Somali Agricultural Technical Group (SATG) to provide technical support for sorghum production in Somalia. The expertise provided Read more...
Genomics and breeding innovations in agriculture
Celebrating 75 years of India’s Independence: Bharat Ka Amrut Mahotsav – ICAR Lecture Series. Our scientists should work on short-duration, multiple stress-tolerant, Read more...
Transforming dryland food systems
About 60% of the total arable land in South Asia is under dryland agriculture, while the corresponding figure for sub-Saharan Africa is around 70%. Drylands contribute more than half the food production in the world (crops, livestock and livestock products). Drylands are also home to the largest number of malnourished, and the poorest of the poor. Read more...
Cereal-legume value chain stakeholders in WCA meet to develop demand-driven and gender-responsive product profiles
Under the AVISA project funded by the Gates Foundation and USAID, supported by CRP-GLDC ICRISAT’s Gender Research Program recently brought together breeders, Read more...
ICRISAT partners, farmer unions in Niger awarded Equator Prize 2021
The Equator Prize 2021 was presented to two farmer unions of Niger – Maddaben of Falwel and Hareyben of Tera – for Read more...
ICRISAT Watershed project wins laurels for eco-restoration efforts
A case study about a watershed management initiative by UltraTech Cements Ltd (UTCL) and ICRISAT was recently named as one of the Read more...
Students take virtual route to visit ICRISAT
Many students have been inspired by their visit to the ICRISAT Hyderabad campus in the past; the COVID-19 pandemic has come in Read more...
ICRISAT-led nutrition enhancement program to reach more vulnerable groups
Giri Poshana for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) launched. Over 16,000 children, adolescent girls, pregnant women, and lactating mothers from tribal communities Read more...