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A rainy afternoon sends workers on their way home from the genetic testing fields of ICRISAT (International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics). The fields behind them are filled with flowering pigeon pea plants covered in netting to allow for controlled pollination/propagation. Pigeon peas are the main ingredient for the popular Indian food of “dal”

ICRISAT is an UN-affiliated crop research institute that seeks to increase the yield of food crops of small-scale farmers in dry tropical regions with improved genetics and farm techniques. Their primary research facilities are near Hyderabad, India, with satellite research facilities in various African countries. ICRISAT conducts research solely on sorghum, millet, chickpea, pigeon pea, and peanut, which are key subsistence crops for non-irrigated farmland in Africa and S. Asia, and maintains a gene bank with over 120,000 varieties.

This kind of unskilled labor pays $7/day, minus deductions for health care, and the jobs are done mainly by women from local villages.

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A rainy afternoon sends workers on their way home from the genetic testing fields of ICRISAT (International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics). The fields behind them are filled with flowering pigeon pea plants covered in netting to allow for controlled pollination/propagation. Pigeon peas are the main ingredient for the popular Indian food of “dal”<br /> <br /> ICRISAT is an UN-affiliated crop research institute that seeks to increase the yield of food crops of small-scale farmers in dry tropical regions with improved genetics and farm techniques. Their primary research facilities are near Hyderabad, India, with satellite research facilities in various African countries. ICRISAT conducts research solely on sorghum, millet, chickpea, pigeon pea, and peanut, which are key subsistence crops for non-irrigated farmland in Africa and S. Asia, and maintains a gene bank with over 120,000 varieties.<br /> <br /> This kind of unskilled labor pays $7/day, minus deductions for health care, and the jobs are done mainly by women from local villages.

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