LIST OF ONGOING FOREIGN AIDED PROJECTS (As on 22.08.2020)
S. No. | Title of Project | Principal Investigator | Funding Agency | Date/Year of Start | Date/Year of Termination |
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1. | Stage 2-Off-grid, clean energy cooling for affordable storage of perishables for BOP famers Stage 1-“Low-Carbon Footprint Cool Storage Structures to Empower Farmers: Improving Storage and enabling Processing of Perishable Produce” | Dr. Sangeeta Chopra, Pr. Scientist | Stage 2-PEER, US-National Academies of Sciences under USAID Stage1-Michigan State University, Global Center for Food Systems Innovation)(GCFSI) | Stage 2-15.12.2018 Stage 1-18.03.2016 | Stage 2- 15.12.2020 Stage 1-30.09.2017 |
2. | Improving Water Management, Agricultural Food and Food Security in Drought Prone Areas | Dr. Ravinder Kaur, Pr. Scientist | United States-India Education Foundation (collaboration with Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI), University of Nebraska, USA ) | 09.02.2017 | 31.08.2020 |
3. | Enhancing resource-use efficiency and farmer’s income through conservation agriculture technologies in pulses under different rainfed cropping systems | Dr. Raj Singh, Principal Scientist, | ICARDA South Asia & China Regional Program | 01.01.2018 | 31.03.2022 |
4. | Scaling breeding and agronomic management for increasing wheat productivity and adaptation to climate change causing rising temperature and water scarcity in South Asia | Dr. Rajbir Yadav, Principal Scientist | BeutscheGesellchaftfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany CIMMYT (Lead Centre) | 18.04.2018 | 31.03.2021 |
5. | Scaling breeding and agronomic management for increasing wheat productivity and adaptation to climate change causing rising temperature and water scarcity in South Asia | Dr. S.V. Sai Prasad, Head | BeutscheGesellchaftfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany CIMMYT (Lead Centre) | 18.04.2018 | 31.03.2021 |
6. | Application of next-generation breeding, genotyping digitalization approaches for improving the genetic gain in India staple crops | Dr. A.K. Singh, Head (Project Coordinator); Dr. C. Bhardwaj, Pr. Scientist (Principal Investigator) | ICAR-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 13.03.2019 | 31.03.2023 |
7. | Biology, epidemiology and management of rice false smut caused by Ustilaginoidavirens (Cke.) Tak | Dr. Bishnu Maya Bashyal, Scientist | ICAR-IRRI (International Rice Research Institute), Laugna | 03.05.2019 | 31.03.2022 |
8. | Fungal pathogen biodiversity documentation in the Indian Himalayan Region and NilgiriMoutains including research into the potential for biological control Impatiens glandulifera, Rebus ellipticus and Rubusniveus using Indian natural enemies | Dr. DeebaKamil, Scientist | CABI, UK | 30.05.2019 | 31.03.2020 |
9. | Biofortification of Lentil for Bihar | Dr. H.K. Dikshit, Principal Scientist | HarvestPlus-International Food Policy Research Institute, USA | 10.07.2019 | 31.07.2023 |
10. | Development of sustainable resources management systems in the water vulnerable areas of India-Development of regionally adopted salt-tolerant soybean | Dr. S.K. Lal, Principal Scientist | JIRCAS, Japan | 09.07.2019 | 29.02.2020 |
11. | Deployment of high yielding stress tolerant and top industrial quality durum wheat elites to targeted growing regions of India | Dr. S.V. Sai Prasad, Head | ICARDA South Asia & China Regional Program | 25.10.2019 | 31.03.2022 |