Millet, a food of the future for the Sahel region
Ahead of International Year of Millets 2023, Niger’s International Millet Festival hails the crop as beneficiary for farmers community and consumers amid climate change. Read more
Researchers Use Satellite Image to Monitor Water Hyacinth Infestation in Lakes
An innovative multi-institutional project titled “Multimodal data analysis for monitoring invasive aquatic weeds in India” involving ICRISAT; University of Stirling, Scotland; University Read more...
ICRISAT Wins SERVIR West Africa Phase 2 Implementation Award
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is pleased to announce the award of a five-year cooperative agreement by USAID to implement the second phase of SERVIR West Africa. Read more
ICRISAT well-positioned to serve as a global leader for agricultural research for development in the dryland regions, accelerated scaling out of our tools and technologies next on the cards
“ICRISAT is well-positioned to serve as a global leader for research in the dryland regions, and a partner of choice for the Read more...
ICRISAT@50: Proactive future engagements
The next green revolution or ever green revolution could come from the drylands. The slowing down of the progress of irrigated agriculture, Read more...
ICRISAT -ICGEB collaborative project aimed at developing double herbicide tolerant pigeonpea using gene editing and genomics approaches launched
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) completed the sequencing of reference genome of pigeonpea (Varshney et al. 2012). Read more...
Climate Smart Crops Improve Livelihood of Farmers in South Eastern Kenya
Increased production and marketing of dryland cereals (sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet) and legumes (pigeonpea, green gram, groundnut, and cowpea) in Read more...
Training program on Soil Sampling as part of ICRISAT-NAANDI partnership
ICRISAT-NAANDI partnership was forged in 2019 to study the impact of regenerative agriculture on soil heath across diverse agro-ecologies. As a part Read more...