ICAR, ICRISAT sign 5-yr action plan for dryland farming
ICRISAT and ICAR have a long-standing partnership of several decades, collaborating on agriculture research agenda
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Sehgal Foundation and Smart Food align to intensify efforts
Sehgal Foundation signed an agreement with ICRISAT for their joint endowment fund to become a component of the Smart Food Endowment Fund that was established in April 2018
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Africa, Asia join hands to promote Smart Food
Leading agriculture organisations from Africa and Asia have joined hands to take on a bold initiative to create a big new industry, with the intent of bringing some ‘Smart Food’ back on the plate as major staples
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PDKV to launch diploma in agriculture extension with Dhanuka Agritech
The one-year diploma in agriculture extension programme will be available for agriculture input dealers aimed at helping farmers
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Who will be the Smart Food student chef of India?
The Grand Finale of Smart Food Culinary Challenge will be held during ‘Organics & Millets 2019 – International Trade Fair’, in Bengaluru
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How poultry farming made West Bengal women self-reliant?
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Murshidabad installed the poultry incubators that helped in fast hatching of eggs and increasing the production. This, in turn, helped the women self-help-groups to increase the production and become self-reliant
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US body honours Indian scientist for genomics & molecular breeding
American Society of Agronomy has conferred its prestigious 2018 fellowship to Dr Rajeev K Varshney, Research Program Director, Genetic Gains at ICRISAT in Baltimore, USA
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VP confers Prof. MS Swaminathan with World Agriculture Prize
The Vice President of India has called the eminent agricultural scientist, Prof. MS Swaminathan as a Vishwa Guru in Agriculture, a teacher and a scholar who continues to leave his inspirational, ideational thought prints on the world
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India-Myanmar pigeonpea program gets research boost
The largest producer of pigeonpea in the world, India could increase its production three times, provided there are varieties resistant to diseases and adapted to climate change. Photo Credit: Michael Major/Crop Trust
MAYA to attract youth in agriculture
India presently has the largest population of youth (356 million between 10-24 years) in the world (UN Report, 2014), even larger than China (269 million)
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