ICRISAT offers short courses with University of Florida

Updated on: Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Andhra Pradesh: The University of Florida (UF) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) will soon establish a joint University of Florida-ICRISAT International Distance Education Center (UF-ICRISAT-IDEC) based at the latter’s headquarters in Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.

A Letter of Agreement was recently signed by ICRISAT Director General Dr William D Dar and UF Interim Senior vice-president, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Dr Larry Arrington.

This collaboration is designed to create opportunities to develop and strengthen regionally relevant training and education programs. The new center will further enable ICRISAT and UF to pursue areas of common interest drawing on the joint expertise of the two partner institutions.

A series of short courses will be offered by the UF faculty with the participation of ICRISAT scientists. The first set of courses will deal with GIS in landscape analysis, analysis of bioenergy projects, soil and water science aspects in watershed development, crop modeling, and the use of geo-statistical data in environmental assessment. Future topics will include biotechnology and related topics as well. Participants in these short courses will receive a certificate jointly issued by the UF and ICRISAT.

ICRISAT offers short courses with University of Florida

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