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ICRISAT, CIMMYT Launch Climate-Resilient Crop Initiative for Dryland Farmers in Africa, India

Hyderabad, May 14 (UNI) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and CIMMYT have launched a major research initiative aimed at accelerating the development of climate-resilient and market-preferred crop varieties for dryland farmers in Africa and India.
The five-year initiative, supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, seeks to significantly reduce the time required to develop improved crop varieties using advanced breeding technologies and data-driven approaches, the Institute said in a release on Thursday.
The programme, titled “Applying Modern Tools to Enhance Precision and Speed of Dryland Crops Breeding”, will initially focus on sorghum and groundnut as proof-of-concept crops while establishing a scalable framework for dryland crop improvement across Africa and South Asia.
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