ICRISAT Locations - ICRISAT Annual Report 2019 - In Focus: Special lift out on Modernizing Breeding

Breeding is a huge part of our I have faith in investment in agriculture research work and we need to build and improve leading to some optimism as we look forward to the the current rate of modernization. [...] 1 Regional Crop Improvement Hubs (RCIH) Regional Crop Improvement Hubs set up in India, Zimbabwe in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and Mali in West and Central Africa (WCA) to stimulate and support breeding programs in the region. [...] 1 Monitoring and Evaluation of Agri-Science Uptake in Research & Extension; 2 Harnessing Opportunities for Productivity Enhancement for Sorghum and Millets (HOPE); 3 Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed ICRISAT Delivery of Legumes and Cereals in Africa (AVISA) Annual Report 2019 15 Breeders' equation What is genetic gain? The amount of increase in performance achieved in a generation through. [...] 650 districts to be reached Indigenous women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ (India) In partnership with the Government of Telangana, food processing units were set up to procure local produce and make products for government’s food and nutrition schemes in schools and welfare centers in the tribal regions of Telangana. [...] ▪▪ Research on gender and youth, youth realities, aspirations, Climbing bean technologies in Rwanda transitions and opportunity structures in Uganda, Ethiopia 0.8 and Tanzania, and youth engagement in seed systems in million farming households increase productivity Mali and northern Nigeria.