Building capacity in crop modeling today for a better tomorrow
Young Malawian researchers are being trained in crop modeling to tackle land, water and climate related challenges facing agriculture and smallholder farmers. Read more...
Ensuring the safety of our seeds
With the recent shipment of 3702 accessions, 91% of ICRISAT’s genebank collection has been safety duplicated at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Read more...
Crops, pollination, food: Why we need bees
One-third of the world’s crops need pollination to set seeds and fruits, and a majority of them are pollinated by bees. Along 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...
An Innovative messaging tool helps South India’s groundnut farmers post impressive yields
An advisory tool, scalable for any number of farmers, has shown immense potential in facilitating crucial agricultural decisions. A pilot project of Read more...
Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the occurrence and distribution of pests and diseases Read more...
Simulating postrainy sorghum yield response to on-station N management in India
Low residual soil moisture and limited nitrogen (N) inputs have in the last few decades stunted the productivity of postrainy (rabi) sorghum, Read more...