Approved Projects under Dryland Cereals Commissioned Grants 2014
| Project | Partner | |
| 1 | Dual-purpose and forage hybrids in sorghum (Postrainy season adapted dual-purpose and forage sorghums for higher yield and quality for improving livestock productivity and farmers ….) | DSR-Hyderabad, MPKV-Rahuri and VNMKV-Parbhani in Maharashtra; UAS-Dharwad in Karnataka and ILRI-Hyderabad |
| 2 | Evaluation of farmers’ selection in specific breeding population targeting the northern Sudan Savannah, that were made in collaboration with UACT and IER-Cinzana. | Mr Aly Boubacar Traore, of IER Cinzana would be the perosn carrying out this work, as a follow-up to hies PhD research. |
| 3 | Establishing a marker test that could be conducted at CERAAS, or at K-Biosciences to test hybrid seed samples for outcrosses with wild sorghum. (Testing sorghum hybrid lots for genetic purity..) | CERAAS, possibly with inputs from Dr. B. Guitton |
| 4 | Boosting crops-livestock productivity by exploiting cereal-legumes association and rotation in drought prone area and low P soil of Niger | INRAN and University of Niamey |
| 5 | Overhauling irrigation systems for Tanzania and Uganda Dryland stations | Letayo/Kisandu for Tanzania Ebiyau/Wanyera for Uganda |
| 6 | Funding NIRS activities in Mali in 2014 | IER, Mali |
| 7 | Foundation seed production in Mali and Burkina Faso | IER in Mali/INERA Burkina Faso |
| 8 | Region specific partnership with focal countries for barley | Morocco, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Turkey |
| 9 | Improveing the avilability of foundation /Breeder seed for seed prodcution | MPKV-Rahuri, Maharastra and MKV -Parbhani, Maharastra |
| 10 | Updating knowledge on demands for grain and stalk quality in sorghum varieties in Burkina Faso and Mali. | CIRAD with IER Mali and DTA/IRSAT Burkina and FO and NGP partners in these countries |
| 11 | Heterotic pool formation in pearl millet | MPKV Dhule, CCSHAU Hisar and PAU Ludhiana |
| 12 | Evaluation of high biomass/forage of pearl millet | JAU Jamnagar |
| 13 | Development of an updated pearl millet model in APSIM | University of Queensland |
| 14 | Reducing Drudgery: Weeding Millet and Sorghum | IER in Mali/INRAN in Niger |
