Significant progress in pearl millet pre-breeding to develop drought- and blast-resistant varieties
Efforts to develop pearl millet with improved resistance to drought and blast disease recently got a major boost. The identification of promising Read more...
Clue to pearl millet’s heat tolerance may help fight climate chaos
Agriculture and climate experts have warned for some years now that rising temperatures and frequency of extreme climate events including heat waves Read more...
New variety of chickpea helps Bangladeshi farmers fight climate change
A new variety of chickpea, which is heat-tolerant, resistant to Botrytis grey mold (BGM) and also high-yielding, was released as BARI Chola-10 Read more...