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SUMMARY:FAS Team Visits ICRISAT
DESCRIPTION:\nA team from the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) visited the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad from February 19–21, 2025, as part of the projects funded by the CGIAR-Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA), “The Dynamics of Agricultural Innovations in North India” and “The Dynamics of Agricultural Innovations in South India.” The FAS team, comprising Professor Madhura Swaminathan (principal investigator), Dr. Sandipan Baksi (co-principal investigator), Dr. Tapas S. Modak (project manager), Ajil Mankunnummal (research officer), and Sai Chandan Kotu (research assistant), aimed to document the innovations undertaken by ICRISAT in India over the last 20 years.\nICRISAT, founded in 1972, is the only CGIAR centre that is headquartered in India. ICRISAT has centred its efforts on driving agricultural growth in the semi-arid tropics with a major focus on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeon pea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, and small millets (which are foxtail, proso, little, kodo, and barnyard millets).\nThe FAS team held discussions with ICRISAT’s Interim Director General, Dr. Stanford Blade, who assured them of institutional support for the project. This was followed by discussions with scientists from the three research programmes: Dr. Rajan Sharma, Dr. Janila Pasupuleti, and Dr. Kuldeep Singh from Accelerated Crop Improvement; Dr. M. L. Jat, Dr. Kaushal K. Garg, Dr. K. H. Anantha, Dr. Srikanth Rupavatharam, Dr. Mukund Dhavaji, and Dr. Murali Krishna Gumma from Resilient Farm and Food Systems; and Dr. Padmaja R, Dr. Dinesh Kumar Chauhan, Dr. Abhishek Das, and Soumitra Pramanik from Enabling Systems Transformation.\nDuring the interaction, ICRISAT scientists provided an overview of their research themes and briefed the team about the development of various agricultural innovations and sustainable practices that they were a part of over the years. The FAS team explored ICRISAT’s mandate crops, understanding advancements in crop breeding, resource management, and so on. Apart from this, the team also had the opportunity to visit the agribusiness and innovation platform as well as ICRISAT’s Gene Bank. Valuable research materials were shared by the ICRISAT team which strengthened the project’s knowledge base.\nThe insights that the team gained from the visit will be instrumental in guiding the future course of the project. The exchange of expertise and relevant materials during the visit is expected to contribute significantly to the ongoing research.\nHere are some glimpses from their visit…\n\n		\n			#gallery-1 {\n				margin: auto;\n			}\n			#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n				float: left;\n				margin-top: 10px;\n				text-align: center;\n				width: 50%;\n			}\n			#gallery-1 img {\n				border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n			}\n			#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n				margin-left: 0;\n			}\n			/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n
URL:https://fas.org.in/events/fas-team-visits-icrisat/
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