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- 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
