As part of this pact, ADB has extended $2.5m assistance to Icrisat for tackling land degradation in China, India, Vietnam and Thailand through participatory watershed management. The ADB funding has also triggered a slew of other investors to pump in money for scaling up the watershed management model developed by Icrisat.
"The institute’s watershed projects also facilitate collaboration between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa," the release added. Earlier, the bank had also supported Icrisat in setting up a state-of-the-art genomics facility.
