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Scaling the Innovative Post-rainy Sorghum ‘Seed Consortium’ for higher adoption and impacts (VNMKV) Final Technical Report
Based on the objective of the project, a group meeting was conducted with regional manager & District MSSC, Parbhani and farmers from Manoli, Gava village on 12/09/2018 at Sorghum Research Station, VNMKV, Parbhani. Certified ...
The NBeG47 Chickpea Variety, Mechanical Harvesting, and Gender in Rural India
With a growing population of over 1.3 billion people, India will need to intensify agricultural production to meet growing nutritional demands; it is particularly important to increase the productivity of pulse crops, which ...
Genotyping of 10000 individuals annually to make early generation selection decisions
Genotyping for FAD mutant alleles was initially done using allele-specific (AS-PCR) and cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) markers for detection of heterozygotes and homozygotes, respectively (Janila et al., ...
Production of 5 MT of Breeder Seed and processing at ICRISAT - Report
To achieve sustainability of seed supply chain, infuse new groundnut varieties into formal seed chain, and improve seed storage at farmers level, revised work plan is implemented since 2017-18 and the report focuses on the ...
Association mapping of nutritional quality traits (protein, iron and zinc) in chickpea
The present study was designed to develop micronutrient-dense chickpea lines, by evaluating the genetic variability and identifying marker trait association for grain protein, Fe and Zn contents. The experiment was conducted ...
Nutritional Dynamics of Adolescent Girls
Malnutrition continues to be one of India's major human development challenge. Despite enormous economic progress achieved in the past two to three decades, malnutrition rates continue to be high especially among children ...
A Brief Report of the International Chickpea Varietal Trials (ICVTs) 2018/19
In India, ICAR and ICRISAT work as a team for chickpea improvement research and this collaboration has been highly effective in developing improved chickpea cultivars. The chickpea breeding materials supplied by ICRISAT ...
Feminization of agriculture
The paper uses micro-level evidences from the longitudinal panel surveys carried out by ICRISAT’s Village Dynamics Studies in South Asia (VDSA), formerly called as Village-level Studies (VLS), which has been running from ...
Integrated crop-rangeland-livestock management to improve system productivity and to build resilience of agro-pastoral systems in semi-arid North Kordofan in Sudan – ARC Scientists visit
ICRISAT and ARC El Obeid, Sudan under the “Increased effectiveness of agro-pastoral management, watershed management and sustainable intensification of wheat - legume systems” initiative tested a number of sorghum, pearl ...