Job Summary

Associate Manager - Pearl Millet Breeding (Internal Job Posting)

ICRISAT seeks applications from dynamic Indian nationals for the position of Associate Manager - Pearl Millet Breeding to support activities under Accelerated Breeding, Accelerated Crop Improvement. This position will be based at ICRISAT s Headquarters in Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded setting through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous,



food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid.
Responsibilities
- Maintain forage type breeding materials: A, B, R-lines/OPVs/Hybrids, Bajra-Napier breeding materials
- Conduct multi-location trials of high biomass/forage type pearl millet
- Coordinate trials and nurseries of forage materials with NARS and members of PMHPRC
- Seed multiplication of promising forag

📌 Associate Scientist-Pearl Millet Breeding (Hyderabad)
🏢 Icrisat
📍 Hyderabad