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RA 00015.pdf - OAR@ICRISAT

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Overall direction of lCRISAT is vested in its Governing Board, consisting of 13 members representing<br />

12 nations. The Board, under the chairmanship of Dr. C. F. Bentley of the University of Alberta in<br />

Canada, met in Hyderabad in May.<br />

small farmer in the semi-arid tropics. The newest<br />

program, in groundnuts, has completed its first full<br />

year of operations, although only one quarter of its<br />

principal staff has been appointed.<br />

The development of the ICRISAT research farm has<br />

kept pace with the growing volume of research. Additional<br />

precision fields for crop breeding research and<br />

additional watersheds for operational research in<br />

farming systems have been developed. Because Hyderabad<br />

is not adequately representative of all the semiarid<br />

tropics, small substations in different agroclimatological<br />

zones in India are being developed with the<br />

cooperation of the state agricultural universities. The<br />

substations extend the range of climates and seasons<br />

for which cultivars can be developed, and increase the<br />

numbers of diseases and pests against which we can<br />

develop resistance.<br />

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