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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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Agri-Biz & Commodities
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Agricultural Institutions Icrisat unveils vision 2015 document Our Bureau
Plans delivering high-impact research products that will improve livelihoods by increasing agricultural productivity.
Hyderabad , May 15 The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has come out with a vision 2015 document to improve the lot of the poor of the semi-arid tropics (SAT) in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa in the next decade. The mission is to reduce poverty, enhance food and nutritional security and protect the environment of the SAT by providing scientific solutions to the poor. Icrisat will be implementing the vision and strategy through a series of medium-term plans. The institute had prepared a plan for 2007-2009. The vision document was recently approved by the institute's governing board, ICRISAT saidin a press release. "We are sensitive to the need for delivering high-impact research products that will improve livelihoods by increasing agricultural productivity," Dr William Dar, Director-General of Icrisat, said. The strategy would include mobilising cutting edge science and institutional innovations. Icrisat would adopt integrated genetic and natural resource management as its research strategy is to attain scientific excellence and relevance in agriculture in the semi-arid tropics, the vision document said. The vision and strategy would be aligned with the objectives of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a network of 15 international agricultural research institutes. Icrisat's new vision and strategy is anchored on concrete action built around CGIAR systemwide research priorities that included sustaining biodiversity for current and future generations and producing more and better food at lower cost through genetic improvements. The document also mandated ICRISAT to intensify innovative public-private partnerships through its Agri-Science Park.
Award
Meanwhile, Dr Dar received the Best Technology Incubator 2005 Award, for Agri-Business Incubator (ABI) at Icrisat, from Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, in New Delhi. The ABI was selected for the award in recognition of the "excellent work done in promoting technology-based ventures in the agri-biotechnology sector."
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