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Seminar on India’s priorities for agricultural research
India’s most senior agricultural research leader, Dr Subanna Ayyappan, Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), presented a seminar on the country’s research priorities at CSIRO Plant Industry in Canberra on Wednesday 18 January 2011.
Indo-Australian Agricultural Research Forum, 30 September
The Indo-Australian Agricultural Research Forum, sponsored by ACIAR, will follow the 5th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (WCCA) at the Brisbane Convention Centre on 30 September 2011.
Australian influence on Indian agriculture
Despite poor farm income, poor infrastructure and high farm labour costs, there is increasing pressure for India to face future food challenges and produce more food.
ACIAR’s South Asia office based in New Delhi recently issued another ‘South Asia’ newsletter. In this colourful publication you can read stories about:
- project portfolio development through consulting with key stakeholders
- climate change adaptation in India and Bangladesh
- improving citrus production practices in Bhutan
- intensifying rice-maize production in Bangladesh
- advances in direct seeded rice production in India
- introducing improved wheat and maize varieties into Afghanistan
Weather forecasts for Indian farmers
Many Australian farmers couldn't cope without weather forecasting when planning their cropping program. Now a group of Indian farmers are getting access to information for the very first time through an ACIAR-funded research project.
ACIAR’s India Week
Leading Australian and Indian agricultural researchers working together are gathering in India from 10-18 February 2011 to highlight their achievements and to establish future research priorities at a series of workshops and field visits.
India newsletters
Newsletters from the ACIAR South Asia office
Breeding the chalk out of rice
Australian scientist Dr Melissa Fitzgerald is looking for ways to overcome the problem of chalky rice, which threatens the rice supply of 2.5 billion people.
Joint project to boost canola production
The quality and yield of canola and other brassica species is set to improve in India, China and Australia, thanks to a three-way research project supported by ACIAR and Australia's Grains Research and Development Corporation.
Delivering impacts for India’s dairy farmers
An ACIAR project on improving milk production in India, which included the adoption of a CSIRO-developed feed supplement, is estimated to have delivered benefits worth A$230 million.
World Food Day
To mark World Food Day ABC Radio Australia has interviewed the project leader of ACIAR's East India Plateau project, Dr Peter Cornish, on food security issues being experienced in parts of India.
Engaging women in research key to success
A joint project between ACIAR and the Indian NGO PRADAN assisting farmers on the East India Plateau has found engaging women as partners in research is a key to success.
Indian shepherds benefit from international research
A gene discovered in Australian Merinos and traced back to the Indian Garole breed is now being used in India to help raise the incomes of poor shepherds.
Australia Backs Indian Food Security Research
Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Stephen Smith, has used a visit to an Australian-funded agricultural research project in India to emphasise the need to protect the world’s food crops from the adverse impact of climate change.
Australia and India have several joint research programs that are applying the latest advances in biotechnology and plant breeding to develop improved crop varieties able to sustain high yields under dry conditions. Indian and Australian farmers share similar agro-climate conditions in their grain growing regions.
ICAR-ACIAR workshop on development of a marker assisted selection in wheat breeding program
A joint Indo-Australian workshop on marker assisted selection in wheat.
Reduced tillage to help boost crop yields
ACIAR's work on conservation tillage is changing cropping practices and boosting crop yields
