The CGIAR research center for the crops of the dry tropics, founded in 1972 and headquartered at Patancheru, Hyderabad, India. Its mandate crops are the ones the driest farms depend on and the big breeding programs long overlooked: sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet and the small millets, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut. Where the Green Revolution centers worked on irrigated wheat and rice, ICRISAT works on the rainfed margins where the harvest is least certain. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Founding Year HeadquartersPatancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, India 1 Classification
KindInternational Agricultural Research Center 1 Connections
Associated With
Pearl Millet, Crops Pearl millet is one of ICRISAT's five original mandate crops for the semi-arid tropics.
Sorghum, Crops Sorghum is one of ICRISAT's five original mandate crops for the semi-arid tropics.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: India, found in there.
Sources
1. ICRISAT (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section; mandate crops list
ICRISAT is an international organisation which conducts agricultural research for rural development.
lead description (institution-kind)
The CGIAR research center for the crops of the dry tropics, founded in 1972 and headquartered at Patancheru, Hyderabad, India.
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