Summary of Solutions

Summary of Solutions

Crop Technologies & Seed Systems

• Biofortified pearl millet Variety (Dhanashakti) and Hybrids to enhance nutrition and climate resilience (ICRISAT)
• High oleic acid varieties, ICG 15083 (Girnar 4) and ICGV 15090 (Girnar 5) of groundnut for consumer health and food industry benefits. (ICRISAT)
• High-yielding, machine-harvestable chickpea varieties to improve the incomes, nutrition, and livelihood opportunities of farmers. (ICRISAT)
• High-yielding, extra-large chickpea kabuli variety ICCV 92311 (KAK 2) (ICRISAT)
• Adoption of Sweet Sorghum cultivars for sustainable commercial and household energy (bioethanol) (ICRISAT)
• Promoting high-quality, climate-resilient multi-cut pearl millet fodder crop for improved livestock nutrition and farmer income TSFB 15-4 and TSFB 15-8 (ICRISAT)
• Sorghum hybrids and OPV, bred for fodder purposes (ICRISAT)
• Strengthening the Seed System - Enhancing access to high-quality seeds through hubs, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and conducive policies.
• Transplanted Pigeonpea along with Climate-Resilient Technology for Sustainable Pigeonpea Production (ICRISAT)
• Climate-smart biofortified lentil varieties (ICARDA)
• Machine Harvestable CHICKPEA and LENTIL (ICARDA)
• Multi-purpose climate-smart Barley for food/malt, feed, and fodder (ICARDA)
• Climate-smart DURUM wheat (Kathia Gehu) (ICARDA)
• High-yielding, climate-resilient and nutritious rice varieties (IRRI)
• Breeding with speed of climate change via speed breeding for accelerating rice improvement (IRRI)
• Trait specific germplasm of crops for direct use as variety or use in breeding programme for genetic enhancement, disease and insect resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, quality and climate resilience (ICAR)
• Sharing the released varieties based on similar environmental conditions and soil types (ICAR)
• Mentoring and development of seed system (ICAR)

Natural Resource Management

• Integration of Land Resource inventory and hydrology for resource quantification and demand assessment (ICRISAT)
• Cropping system design based on resource availability and crop water requirements (ICRISAT)
• Designing robust and cost-effective engineering structures (ICRISAT)

Digital Agricultural Technologies

• Intelligent Agricultural Systems Advisory Tool (iSAT) (ICRISAT)
• Digital soil mapping with a mobile application (ICRISAT)
• Plant protection application app: Plantix (ICRISAT)
• Geoagro – iKrishi App for a farmer-friendly site-specific advisory (ICARDA)
• Digital Public Infrastructure for Agriculture – AgriStack (Deptt of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW))
• Crop Loan to Farmers (Kisan Credit Card) (Deptt of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW))
• Crop Insurance Scheme (PMFBY) (Deptt of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW))
• Seed Traceability, Authentication and Holistic Inventory (SATHI) portal (Deptt of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW))
• Digital tools for precision rice cultivation (IRRI)
• Decision Support Systems (Gates foundation)

Knowledge Sharing Solutions

• Building capacity in modern crop breeding technology to develop critical human resources for crop varietal development programs in partner countries. (ICRISAT)
• Integrated Climate Risk Assessment and Prioritization Framework for Scaling and Mainstreaming Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) (ICRISAT)
• Systems Approach and Tools to Support Investment Decisions for Scaling Resilient and Sustainable Farm and Food Systems (ICRISAT)
• Agricultural Post Graduate Education and trainings (ICAR)
• Pashu Sakhi (Gates Foundation)

Farm Mechanization, Food Processing, Products & Tools

• The inclusive convergence model for linking agriculture, nutrition, and entrepreneurship (ICRISAT)
• Mapping and quantifying the impact of various regenerative agricultural practices on ecosystem services (ICRISAT)
• Rapid soil assessment using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (DRS) (ICRISAT)
• Integrating soil health assessment with physical, nutrient, and biological parameters (ICRISAT)
• Holistic solutions for aflatoxin management in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (ICRISAT)
• Hermetic storage technologies for safe grain and seed storage in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (ICRISAT)
• Enriching soil OC using biochar, composting and Conservation Agriculture practices (ICRISAT)
• Protected Cultivation of High-Value Vegetables (ICRISAT)
• Vegetable Grafting and Dryland Horticulture (ICRISAT)
• Need-based irrigation scheduling using Water Impact Calculator (ICRISAT)
• Microbial consortium-mediated aerobic composting technology (ICRISAT)
• Scientific beekeeping for honey production, crop yield improvement, and native honeybee conservation (ICRISAT)
• Prototype design for sowing minor millets for effective sowing (ICRISAT)
• Multi-crop planter for sowing seeds under conservation agriculture (including zero-till) scenarios (ICRISAT)
• Land Laser leveller for enhancing irrigation use efficiency (ICRISAT)
• LULC mapping for identifying hotspots/ impact assessment (ICRISAT)
• GIS/Remote Sensing for Crop type mapping and assessment of crop health (ICRISAT)
• Monitoring of water bodies and soil, and water conservation structures (ICRISAT)
• Crop-water-climate modelling for resource quantification and its optimization (ICRISAT)
• Cactus as a 5F Crop in degraded land (ICARDA)
• Yield Estimation using Technology (YES-TECH) (Deptt of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (DA&FW))
• Mechanized Direct Seeded Rice (IRRI)
• Technologies for postharvest management (IRRI)
• Rice value-added products for nutrition and profitability (IRRI)
• Geospatial technologies to map Rice area, yield, and DSR suitable ecologies (IRRI)
• Bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers for healthier food and safer environment due to less chemical use (ICAR)
• Seed Production and Grow-out Farming of Freshwater Fishes (ICAR)
• Cage Culture in Open-waters (ICAR)
• Marine cage farming (ICAR)
• Brackishwater shrimp farming (ICAR)
• FPO's (Gates Foundation)