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Award for ICRISAT

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Excellent work in technology-based ventures

NEW DELHI: The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, has won the Best Technology Incubator 2005 Award instituted by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Director-General William Dar received the award for the Agri-Business Incubator (ABI) from Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia here on the occasion of National Technology Day on Friday. Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal was present.

The ABI was selected in recognition of the "excellent work done in promoting technology-based ventures in the agri-biotechnology sector."

Dr. Dar said the award was a testimony to the institute's success in attracting public-private partnerships for developing agricultural technologies into successful agri-business ventures. The ABI was established with financial support from the Ministry's National Science Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board.

Agri-business products and technologies incubated are sweet sorghum for ethanol production; Helicoverpa-resistant transgenic cotton; biofermenter for biopesticide production; drought-resistant groundnut variety ICGV 91114; better-yielding chickpea varieties JG-11 and KAK-2; biopesticide formulations for controlling crop pest; pesticide-free crops and produce through organic farming.

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