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General Information
ICRISAT is one of 13 international centers in a worldwide research
network devoted to improving food production in less developed
countries. ICRISAT's mandate is to improve the yield, stability, and
food quality of five crops basic to life in the semi-arid tropics (SAT)
and to develop farming systems that will maximize use of the human
and animal resources and the region's limited rainfall.
The SAT are spread over nearly 20 million square kilometers and
include 50 nations in Asia, Australia, Africa, and Latin America. The
SAT is a harsh region of limited, erratic rainfall and nutrient-poor soils.
It is populated by over 750 million people, most of whom live at
subsistence levels and depend on the limited production of small
farms.
The crops researched by ICRISAT are the major cereals in the SAT-
-sorghum and millets--and the most important food legumes of the
region--chickpea, pigeonpea, and groundnut. Groundnut, which is
rich in oil, is an important cash crop for the SAT farmer, the others are
primarily subsistence food crops.
ICRISAT's headquarters are at Patancheru, 26 km northwest of
Hyderabad, India. Scientific staff are also posted in six African
countries, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, in
Mexico, and Syria, and at four cooperative research stations in India.
The two main bases for ICRISAT's work in Africa are at the ICRISAT
Sahelian Center near Niamey, Niger, and the SADCC/ICRISAT sorghum
and millets improvement program at Matopos, near Bulawayo,
Zimbabwe, set up in response to an invitation from the nine-nation
Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC).
Since its foundation ICRISAT has realized the importance of communicating
its research findings and production technology via a wide
range of publications.
Ordering Instructions
In this catalog ICRISAT publications are listed by series and each
series is described. For francophone and Spanish-speaking readers,
citations of publications printed in French and Spanish are given in
those languages. Indication is also given where publications include
abstracts or papers printed in additional languages.
If you would like details of publications by ICRISAT scientists in the
scientific press, please ask for a free copy of ICRISAT in Print (GAE
018).
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