Improving groundnut farming with early maturing resilient varieties
To accelerate the development of improved groundnut varieties, ICRISAT’s groundnut breeding team is gearing up to provide seed to research partners for Read more...
Can India sustain high growth of pulses production?
India has made remarkable progress in enhancing production of pulses during the past 15 years. During 2005-06, the total production of pulses Read more...
Genomics-Assisted Breeding 2.0 for Sustainable Agriculture
Accelerating genetic gains through genomics-assisted breeding 2.0 approaches will deliver higher produce for smallholder farmers while ensuring sustainable agriculture and environmental Read more...
Sorghum scientists from public and private sectors across India gather to share insights on modern breeding technologies
Continuing a long-standing partnership with sorghum scientists across institutes in India, a long-overdue field day showcased elite breeding lines, varieties, hybrids and Read more...
Odisha government, ICRISAT ink new agriculture partnership for vulnerable tribal groups
Odisha Chief Minister Mr Naveen Patnaik announced the collaboration on 2 March 2021 The Government of Odisha is collaborating with ICRISAT to Read more...
Celebrating four decades of collaborative research on groundnut in India
To achieve the full genetic potential and higher profits for smallholder farmers, modern crop improvement programs, strong seed delivery system, better market Read more...
Striding towards streamlined crop improvement programs
To better accomplish its mission by providing improved crop varieties to smallholder farmers, ICRISAT is overhauling its breeding program with regional crop Read more...
Food security, health and nutrition are critical goals for modern breeding programs focused on genomics
Scientists, researchers and policymakers endorsed the potential of genomics and other molecular breeding tools and approaches towards food, health, and nutrition security Read more...
The 5Gs of genomics are vital to accelerate crop breeding
ICRISAT scientist joins in for webinar series Genomics-assisted crop breeding technology can help advance crop improvement at an accelerated pace to ensure Read more...
Individual crop improvement operations merge into a single entity for greater efficiency
Under the new model of aligning all crop improvement operations, all the field operations across disciplines such as breeding, genomics and trait Read more...