Pooran Gaur, the patron who helped chickpea shed its ‘orphan’ tag
Dr Pooran Gaur, former Director of the Asia Research Program at ICRISAT, recently retired after two decades of research and leadership that Read more...
Indian farmers reap profits from machine harvestable chickpea
Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, is helping farmers circumvent labor shortage during harvest in Read more...
Indo-Australia genomics project for chickpea drought tolerance gains momentum
India and Australia have joined hands in a multi-institutional project to enhance drought tolerance in chickpea. The project, ‘Functional Genomics of Chickpea Read more...
Global team cracks genetic code to develop high-yielding, climate resilient chickpea
Research also maps the center of origin and migration route of chickpea In a major breakthrough, scientists from 21 research institutes globally, Read more...