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My 2012 Annual Letter – Bill Gates
My job is to learn about global health and development – and to travel to poor countries to meet farmers who can’t grow enough food, mothers who can’t keep children healthy, and heroes in the field who are doing something about those emergencies. Very few …
Sorghum field day: Production set to perk up in Rombo District
It all began when Mr Michael Shirima, owner of Precision Air (a regional airline company in Tanzania), on hearing about the improved Macia sorghum being promoted by the ICRISAT-HOPE project, bought 30 kg ofseed from Suba-Agro, a private seed company in Tanzania. He planted it …
ICRISAT-HOPE project annual meet for pearl millet – South Asia held at Patancheru
Two meetings of the ICRISAT-HOPE project for Pearl Millet – South Asia being implemented in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana in India, were held on 16-17 January at ICRISAT-Patancheru to report progress for 2011 and devise work plans for 2012. Sixty participants including scientists from state …
PMT reviews sorghum activities in Maharashtra
It has been a fruitful year for 25,000 sorghum farmers in the Western and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra State in India, thanks to interventions from the ICRISAT-HOPE project that have helped them realize more than 40% higher grain yield and over 20% higher fodder …
Linking farmers to markets: Facilitating sorghum trade on behalf of farmers in Tanzania
Highlighting the power of markets to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, ICRISATHOPE project partners in Tanzania negotiated a forward contract agreement for the purchase and supply of 200 tons of sorghum grain between the Kwamtoro Farmers’ Sacco and the Dunia Trust Ltd, a …