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This acquisition will strengthen Crystal’s field crop seed business and make it a strong integrated agri-input player. The company expects this business to contribute 10 per cent of its annual turnover
Crystal Crop Protection acquires cotton, mustard, pearl millet and grain sorghum hybrids from Bayer India Read More
The research will contribute new, significant knowledge of plant genetics, which are essential for the breeding of future cultivated plants which must form the basis of sustainable production based on increased drought tolerance and improved disease resistance
Carlsberg Foundation grants DKK 19.5 mn to ‘Crops for the Future’ research project Read More
Considering highly climate resilient, less water intensive, can be grown on dry-lands with high nutrition value, millets are also termed ‘smart food’ in various regions of the world
APEDA, IIMR make action plan for promotion of millets and millet products Read More
The “Millet Finder”, launched today, discovered a surge in the use of millets, with over a thousand modern convenient products in a very wide range, across all the inhabited continents
Newly launched millet food finder shows a revolution is underway Read More
Fall Armyworm is an insect, which causes considerable yield losses in cultivated maize, rice, sorghum, millet, and other crops as it is capable of attacking over 80 species of crops, if not under good management and control
FAO scales up fight against Fall Armyworm Read More
New partnership with global agriculture research giant to focus on tackling challenge of health, environmental and social sustainability in food
ICRISAT, University of Reading join hands to grow high nutrition food Read More
Developed by ICRISAT, India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular sorghum, was formally launched today
India gets first biofortified sorghum Read More