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Icrisat project wins Award

The project developed by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) for managing the pigeonpea pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera, through the production and use of the biopesticide Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (NPV) has won World Bank’s Development Marketplace Award for 2005.

Icrisat’s project, titled ‘traditional technology with a modern twist’, is among the 31 projects selected through global competition by World Bank for this year’s award. Icrisat and partner, the Centre for World Solidarity (a Hyderabad-based non-governmental organisation working on integrated pest management), will receive a grant of US $150,000, for establishing 100 community-based rural NPV production facilities. The project’s sustainability is based on the programme to train villagers on NPV production and utilisation, and thus spread awareness on the use of biopesticides.
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