Focus on grain legumes and Smart Food approaches with millets, sorghum and legumes.
Hyderabad headquartered International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has enhanced its partnership with the Department of Agriculture Research (DAR), Myanmar, for close collaboration in agriculture research, with a focus on grain legumes and Smart Food (consumer and industry) approaches with millets, sorghum and legumes.
The key points of this agreement point to future strategies including:
- Modernizing Myanmar’s pulse breeding programs, by sharing technologies for:
- Molecular breeding
- Rapid generation turnover
- Breeding management system
- Researching crop product profiles to develop cultivars with new/enhanced traits preferred by farmers, consumers and the industry.
- Ideating approaches to enhance adoption of improved cultivars and of production technologies.
- Developing a Smart Food program specifically for pigeonpea, millets and sorghum
- Exploring market analytics for pulses.
U Naing Kyi Win, Director General, DAR and Dr Peter Carberry, Director General, ICRISAT, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at DAR in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.