Hands-on training program on aflatoxin detection

03 May 2019

To check for aflatoxin contamination in their products, groundnut value chain stakeholders in Bangladesh attended a hands-on training program. Participants learnt to...

Dr. Jaba Jagadish, Scientist – Entomology, ICRISAT, demonstrating the damage caused by FAW at the ICRSIAT Campus, Hyderabad.

Representatives from Eight Asian Countries Meet to Tackle Fall Armyworm

01 May 2019

Over 100 participants from eight South and South-East Asian countries attended today the “Regional Workshop on Fall Armyworm Management in Asia” organized in Hyderabad. The Fall Armyworm (FAW) is one of the most destructive crop pests and has invaded crops in India and other countries in the region including Bangladesh, Thailand, Myanmar and Sri Lanka....

The stories of ‘sorghum’ Agatha and ‘seed’ Mary

12 Apr 2019

Why linking with the private sector is important for the AVISA project Passion can be a very tasty ingredient. It is with...

Key delegates including Hon. Japeth Hasunga, Agriculture Minister, Tanzania; Dr Jeff Ehlers, Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Dr Peter Carberry, Director General, ICRISAT, at the launch of the AVISA project. Photo: ICRISAT

Giving youth roots and wings for a better agricultural future in Kenya

12 Apr 2019

Programs provide income-generation opportunities for young Kenyan farmers From equipping young women and men with agronomy skills to helping them set up...

A Nutrition Officer facilitating a nutrition education class in Makueni. Photo: ICRISAT

Breaking barriers for climate-smart crop adoption in Kenya

05 Apr 2019

Paving the way for development of a reliable seed distribution model, a nationwide program has helped transform livelihoods of over 450 farm...

Making seed available for improved adoption of climate smart crops

04 Apr 2019

The central problem facing climate smart crops such as sorghum, millets and pigeonpea, is how to accelerate the adoption of improved varieties– getting...

Dr Vabi explaining the working of motorized groundnut thresher to Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh, Federal Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria, and Dr Philip Ojo, Director General of NASC.

Nigerian Agriculture Minister endorses groundnut thresher

26 Oct 2018

A motorized groundnut thresher is reducing drudgery for women farmers in rural Nigeria. Introduced in 2015, over 50 threshers have already been...

Cullen Hughess, Director of Sustainable Economic Growth (center) and Peter Trenchard, USAID Acting Mission Director to Malawi (right) listen as an ICRISAT officer (left) explains the working of a machine. Photo: L Lazarus, ICRISAT

Groundnut technologies highlighted at National Agriculture Fair in Malawi

21 Sep 2018

Labor-saving and value-addition technologies for groundnut promoted by ICRISAT in collaboration with the Compatible Technologies International (CTI) were among the highlights at...

Feed The Future, USAID, features ICRISAT’s Digital Agriculture work as a case study

24 Aug 2018

As part of a series on the integration of digital technologies into agricultural programs, ICRISAT’s work on digital agriculture was featured as...

Livestock market in Niger Photo: Andre F.van Rooyen, ICRISAT

Joining the dots between crops, livestock and markets in West Africa

25 May 2018

A project that aims to strengthen research in crop-livestock systems, to substantially change lives and livelihood of farmers in Western Africa, was launched earlier this month. There has been little investment in research and development for crop-livestock systems with market linkages.

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