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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Posted on February 7, 2022 by admin1  60

In News 

  • The Prime Minister of India kickstarted the 50th Anniversary celebrations of ICRISAT. 

About ICRISAT 

  • It is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. 
  • ICRISAT is headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, with two regional hubs and six country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • It is a member of the CGIAR Consortium. 
    • CGIAR is a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future. Its science is carried out by the 15 research centres that are members of the CGIAR Consortium in collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations. 
  • Functions 
    • It helps farmers by providing improved crop varieties and hybrids and also helps smallholder farmers in the drylands fight climate change.
    • ICRISAT and its partners help empower these poor people to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agriculture.
    • It conducts research protecting the environment. 
  • Achievements: 
  • They helped in a holistic approach in integrating farmers with their markets and promoting pulses and chickpea production in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
  • It has been awarded the 2021 Africa Food Prize, for work that has improved food security across 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Source: PIB

 
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