Director General Dr William D. Dar received the MS Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture for the year 2013 at an illustrious ceremony at the BP Pal Auditorium of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi on 24 June.



Director General Dr William D. Dar received the MS Swaminathan Award for Leadership in Agriculture for the year 2013 at an illustrious ceremony at the BP Pal Auditorium of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi on 24 June.

Director General William Dar announced a Platform for India-Africa Partnership in Agriculture at a Roundtable meeting on South-South Initiative for Improving Agriculture in India and Africa” held in New Delhi on 24 June.

Leading groundnut scientists from ICRISAT had the opportunity to participate in the sixth International Conference of The Peanut Research Community on Advances in Arachis through Genomics and Biotechnology held in Zhengzhou, China from 17-21 June.