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Adama Moussa (left), S.M.Bonzi (center), and A.B.M.Salahuddin (right), former ICRISAT
trainees, returned to Hyderabad to participate in the Sorghum Workshop in March. Moussa is doing
sorghum breeding work in Niger; Bonzi is serving as entomologist in Upper Volta, and Salahuddin is
doing breeding work in Bangladesh. They enjoyed a reunion with Dr. R. C. McGinnis, Associate
Director for International Programs (second from left), and Training Officer Dr. Dallas Oswalt.
This year saw the Training Program of ICRISAT
reach its peak in numbers. Twenty-seven in-service
trainees, most of them from Africa and about half of
them from French-speaking Africa, are currently
undergoing intensive field-oriented studies in crop
production, crop improvement, and farming systems.
Eleven research scholars studying for advanced degrees,
six research fellows, and three Dutch Associate
Experts are also learning-by-doing at ICRISAT. The
capacity of our training facilities has been reached,
perhaps over-reached, and no larger numbers of trainees
can be accommodated until ICRISAT Center has
been completed. More than one-hundred trainees in
total have already passed through ICRISAT's programs
and are now contributing to their national
programs, and in some cases to ICRISAT's programs,
in their own countries. We wish them well in their
future careers and professions.
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