10 new chickpea varieties released in 2020 in collaboration with NARS
Market-driven chickpea innovations record many firsts in Africa and Asia. To meet the growing global market demand for protein-rich chickpea, scientists have 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...
New chickpea breeding protocol promises to bring down varietal development time from 12 years to 6 years
Rapid Generation Advancement promises to be a simple yet cost effective solution ICRISAT’s chickpea researchers have developed a breeding protocol that holds Read more...
Farmers’ demand for labor-friendly chickpea bears fruit: 2 more machine-harvestable varieties released in India
For the first time, the Central Varietal Release Committee (CVRC) of India has released two new machine-harvestable chickpea varieties. With this, the Read more...
First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety In a first, the National Variety Release Read more...
Two-fold increase in varietal adoption in seven years – a chickpea tale from Ethiopia
Adoption of improved chickpea varieties increased more than two-fold in seven years, shows data from more than 600 households in Ethiopia. “In Read more...
Two new machine-harvestable chickpea varieties released in India: A case of demand-driven innovation
Two new machine harvestable chickpea varieties ICCV 08102 (RVG 204) and ICCV 08108 (Phule Vikram) were released recently in the Indian states Read more...