50th Anniversary Celebrations of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Patancheru, Hyderabad.
• During the occasion, PM also inaugurated two research facilities of ICRISAT, which were Climate Change Research Facility on Plant Protection and Rapid Generation Advancement Facility.
• These two facilities are dedicated to the smallholder farmers of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
• Prime Minister also unveiled a specially designed logo of ICRISAT and launched a commemorative stamp issued on the occasion.

About International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

• ICRISAT, is a non-profit, non-political public international research organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world.
• ICRISAT has been awarded the 2021 Africa Food Prize, for work that has improved food security across 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
• ICRISAT headquarters are located in Hyderabad.
• ICRISAT was founded by M. S. Swaminathan, C. Fred Bentley and Ralph Cummings in 1972.