ICRISAT
Proper noun
Meaning
ICRISAT
Initialism of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, an Institute in India.
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For the past ten years, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ( ICRISAT ) has been assisting Zimbabwe's farmers to adopt conservation agriculture techniques, a sustainable method of farming that can help increase yields.
ICRISAT, which has taken a very friendly stance towards the sorghum agrofuel industry, appears uninterested in sorting out the complexities of patent claims on its in-trust germplasm when it is copied elsewhere.
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ( ICRISAT ) has employed this system to rehabilitate degraded laterite soils in Niger and increase smallholder farmers' incomes.
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ( ICRISAT ), a member of the CGIAR consortium, partners with farmers, governments, researchers and NGOs to help farmers grow nutritious crops, including finger millet.
The ICRISAT climate change expert said the ECRIMS programme also promotes the planting of velvet beans to feed cattle.