Dr Doraiswamy Venkateshwaran, Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner stationed in Chennai, recently visited the ICRISAT campus in Hyderabad to learn more about the Institute’s science-backed research for dryland agriculture. Along with his team, he visited the genebank and toured the pigeonpea and finger millet field plots, where Dr Prakash Gangashetty and Dr Sobhan Sajja explained to him the research focus and various traits of hybrids and varieties developed by ICRISAT.

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In-house version 1 Oct 2021, No.1926
Visit by Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner to
ICRISAT opens opportunities for learning and knowledge
exchange
Dr Jacqueline Hughes, Director General, ICRISAT, welcomes Dr D Venkateshwaran, Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka
(second from left) and the accompanying delegation to the ICRISAT campus in India taking the opportunity to highlight the
Institute being awarded the Africa Food Prize 2021.
Photo: PS Rao, ICRISAT
Dr Doraiswamy Venkateshwaran, Sri Lankan Deputy
High Commissioner stationed in Chennai, recently
visited the ICRISAT campus in Hyderabad to learn more
about the Institute’s science-backed research for dryland
agriculture.
Along with his team, he visited the genebank and toured
the pigeonpea and finger millet field plots, where Dr
Prakash Gangashetty and Dr Sobhan Sajja explained to
him the research focus and various traits of hybrids and
varieties developed by ICRISAT.
Dr Venkateshwaran expressed interest in collaborating
to provide training opportunities for Sri Lankan scientists
and agriculture extension personnel. The opportunities
to conduct future visits by scientists, senior staff
members of the Department of Agriculture, and the
Minister of Agriculture of Sri Lanka were explored to
share knowledge in which Sri Lanka could possibly adopt
to establish a similar and modern research facility based
on the ICRISAT model.
Dr D Venkateshwaran and his team visited ICRISAT on 20
September 2021.
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