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with peers, and 55% were involved in training
other staff. About 80% of the participants are still
applying the skills and knowledge gained at
ICRISAT, indicating relevance, usefulness and
sustainability of learning. Nearly, 73% participants
expressed that their job performance was
enhanced by more than double through their
exposure to ICRISAT.
These training courses also helped ICRISAT to
generate additional funds. For example, in 2004,
sorghum group at ICRISAT-Patancheru earned
about US$10,000 by offering course on hybrid
parents development.
Other means of capacity building are farmers’ and
scientists’ field days. ICRISAT conducts sorghum
scientists’ (both ICRISAT and NARS) field days in
Africa and Asia (Figures 32 and 33). It also conducts
almost every year farmers’ field days in
collaboration with NARS in each region (Figures
34 and 35). These field days also help to get
feedback from the participants on research/
products and thus help to shape up ICRISAT’s
research portfolio.
Figure 32. Director General –ICRISAT along with
other scientists listens to principal sorghum breeder
during ICRISAT Scientists field day.
Figure 34. Farmers sharing the knowledge gleaned from
more than 30 years of ICRISAT’s sorghum research in
sorghum field day conducted by ICRISAT in Africa.
Figure 33. NARS sorghum scientists participated in sorghum scientists field day at ICRISAT, Patancheru.
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