August 09
Pigeon peas, the
new maize?
July 09
ICRISAT offers
short courses with University of Florida
Scientific
strategies can save dryland agriculture
June 09
ICRISAT develops
climate change ready varieties of pearl millet, sorghum,
chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut
May 09
ICRISAT mandates
open access to all its scientific and scholarly publications
Dr William D Dar,
ICRISAT Director General, appointed for a third five-year term
in office
Towards a
sustainable vegetable seed sector in the Sahel: Vegetable Seed
Multiplication and Storage workshop held in Niamey, Niger
March 09
Climate change
adaptation innovations bring hope to dryland farmers
ICRISAT and the
World Vegetable Center (AVRDC) strengthen collaboration to
improve crop diversity for farmers
West Africa Seed
Alliance (WASA) launches first official newsletter and brand
identity at 2009 Congress of the African Seed Trade Association
(AFSTA)
Magic pea leads a
new Green Revolution in the drylands: Pushkal, a new variety of
pigeonpea, is the first commercially available hybrid legume in
the world
February 09
ICRISAT and
Government of India plan platform for translational research on
transgenic crops
Unraveling of
the sorghum genome will help improve dryland crops
December 08
ICRISAT’s
Agri-Business Incubator awarded as best in Asia-Pacific
November 08
ICRISAT creates
impacts in Africa
American
Society of Agronomy honors ICRISAT scientist
September 08
ICRISAT to
re-establish center in Nigeria
International
Public Goods developed by ICRISAT improve agricultural
productivity
August 08
Crop breeders
on verge of beating Africa’s most noxious weed use cutting edge
science technique
Pigeonpea
varieties developed by ICRISAT becoming popular in the hill of
Uttarakhand, North India
ICRISAT and
India's Department of Biotechnology to establish new facility
for agribiotechnology research
July 08
ICRISAT now a top
ranking global research institution
World's first
cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) based pigeonpea hybrid
commercialized
June 08
Science leads to
adaptation with climate change
Scientific
innovations will trigger Green Revolution in Africa
May 08
Cutting edge science
helps the poor overcome soaring food prices
Sweet sorghum: a new
smart biofuel crop that ensures food security
March 08
ICRISAT launches
Center of Excellence in Genomics and Bio-Food Knowledge Center
February 08
ICRISAT's
germplasm to strengthen the collection at the Svalbard Global
Seed Vault
Development of
smart crops for biofuels ensures food and environmental security
January 08
International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Crops (ICRISAT) signs
memorandum of understanding with Crop and Food Research, New
Zealand
December 07
Praj Industries
joins ICRISAT's sweet sorghum ethanol consortium
Global Crop
Diversity Trust to ensure the long-term availability of funds
for ICRISAT's genebank
International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) of the United Nations
supports biofuels research-for-development project led by
ICRISAT
China embraces
agricultural innovations through partnership with India-based
international center
November 07
Crop research must switch to climate adaptation, say climate-change
and crop experts
Tata Chemicals
joins ICRISAT's sweet sorghum ethanol consortium
October 07
Legumes step
into the limelight in the tropics
ICRISAT
incubates agri-business projects in Mozambique
September 07
ICRISAT
scientists breed crop varieties and hybrids that are more
drought, pest and disease tolerant
August 07
ICRISAT and
partners initiate biopesticide production in villages of India
and Nepal
July 07
New low-cost
technology counters widespread aflatoxin food poisoning,
increases agricultural exports
June 07
Genes are Gems:
Reporting Agri-Biotechnology - A sourcebook for journalists
Ethanol from sweet
sorghum does not compromise food security
May 07
Hybrid pigeonpea:
breaking a yield barrier
March 07
ICRISAT hybrid
pigeonpea to trigger pulse revolution
ICRISAT promotes
pro-poor biofuels initiative
ICRISAT
reintroduces pigeonpea in China
February 07
A glimpse of
the biodiversity at ICRISAT campus
ICRISAT
pigeonpea spreads roots in China, finds multiple uses
December 06
ICRISAT and India's
Department of Biotechnology partner to establish a Center of Excellence
in Genomics
First international
conference on indigenous vegetables and legumes
November 06
ICRISAT and partners
launch initiative on open access information on agricultural research
Climate change: back to
the future
October 06
ICRISAT sorghum for
ethanol now a sweet reality
September 06
Biofuel crops: power
to the dryland poor
August 06
ICRISAT and University of
Florida launch partnership for flexible online courses
May 06
Chief Minister of Andhra
Pradesh presents ICRISAT groundnut variety to Anantapur farmers
May 06
ICRISAT maps out
vision and strategy to 2015
ICRISAT receives the
best technology incubator award
Asian Development Bank and
ICRISAT partner in alleviating poverty through science
April 06
Small fertilizer doses
yield big impact in sub-Saharan Africa
March 06
ICRISAT's Agri-Business
Incubator selected as India's best technology incubator for 2005
ICRISAT strengthens
partnerships with the private sector
February 06
ICRISAT initiates
groundnut revolution in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh
November 05
ICRISAT varieties
restart pigeonpea cultivation in China
September 05
Technological
breakthrough to produce disease-resistant chickpea
ICRISAT and private
sector partners identify priorities for hybrid research
May 05
World
Bank's Development Marketplace Award for ICRISAT's biopesticide
production technology
Seeds
of hope from ICRISAT for despairing pigeonpea farmers
March 05
ICRISAT memorandum of
understanding with Nandan Biomatrix Ltd. strengthens public-private
partnership
February 05
ICRISAT plans rice
biotech park
ICRISAT
plans to start open field trials for transgenic groundnut
ICRISAT scientist
invited to advise Unilever on sustainable agriculture
ICRISAT launches a new
pigeonpea hybrid seed production technology
January 05
Pioneering
marker-assisted breeding results in pearl millet hybrid resistant to
downy mildew
ICRISAT working on biofortification of groundnuts
October 04
ICRISAT initiates
e-network on agri-biotechnology
ICRISAT
gears up for phase 2 with GM crops
ICRISAT harnesses
biotech for the poor
September 04
ICRISAT launches
‘Strategy 2010'
ICRISAT proposes a
Biopesticide Research Consortium
Asian Development Bank
and ICRISAT launch initiative to strengthen partnerships for
agricultural development
August 04
ICRISAT's
Agri-Business Incubator
starts GM cotton initiative
ICRISAT to launch trials
of GM groundnut next season and pigeon pea in 2006
November 03
Another global first
from ICRISAT: transgenic pigeonpea resistant to pod borer
ICRISAT scientist
Dr Jonathan H
Crouch wins CGIAR Young Scientist Award
ICRISAT headquarters
to remain in India
Researchers nearing
biotechnology breakthroughs to add new characteristics to field pea and
desi chickpea
May 03
ICRISAT develops world’s first
GM peanut
March 03
Avesthagen Gengraine
Technologies ties up with ICRISAT for ag-biotech alliance
February 03
ICRISAT and MSSRF plan
Virtual University on drought
ICRISAT explores
agri-biotech partnerships with Canadians
Improving legume crops
with farmers' participation
January 03
Scientists' meet on
chickpea research
August 02
Dealing with drought
July 02
Golden Millet,
Naturally!
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