Happy retirement Rex L Navarro, Interim Director, Strategic Marketing and Communication Office (SMCO) retires on 30 November after 12 years of dedicated service to the Institute.
B Manik Reddy, Scientific Associate, Research Program - Resilient Dryland Systems, after serving the Institute for over 28 years.
D Janardhan, Senior Farm & Engineering Associate (Carpentry), FETS - Engineering Services, after 32 years of service.
Team ICRISAT wishes them a very happy retired life.
Welcome! Dr Avinash Chandra Pandey, an Indian national, joined IRRI’s South Asia Rice Breeding hub based at ICRISAT-Patancheru on 26 November, as Special Project Scientist - Plant Breeding. Prior to this, Avinash was a Crop Breeder (Rice) at Camson Bio Technologies Limited, Bangalore, where he worked on developing drought-tolerant hybrid rice.
Dr Junel Bueno Soriano, a Filipino national, joined the Research Program - Resilient Dryland Systems, Patancheru, as a Visiting Scientist on 26 November. Junel has a PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the Central Luzon State University (CLSU), Philippines. Prior to this assignment, he was Associate Professor IV & VP for Research, Extension & Training at the Bulacan Agricultural State College, San Ildefonso, Bulacan, Philippines.
We welcome Avinash and Junel to ICRISAT and wish them all success.
New appointment Dr Santosh P Deshpande, Special Project Scientist, Research Program - Dryland Cereals, has been appointed as Scientist (Molecular Breeding) from 16 November in the SMG Cadre.
Visitors’ log 26 November: Seven agricultural officers and 40 farmers from Chitradurga district, Karnataka; and 72 students from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. 27 November: Twenty-nine students from Basics Academy, Chintal, Hyderabad; 42 students from the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Rupandehi, Nepal; 12 students from ISH; six trainees for hybrid pigeonpea; and Dr CW Bill Herndon, Associate Vice President from the Mississippi State University.
28 November: Thirty-two students from GITAM University; and 35 trainees from the National Plant Protection Training Institute (NPPTI), Rajendranagar. 29 November: Sixty BSc students from Sericulture College, Chintamani, Karnataka; and Dr Ashwani Kalantri from Sevagram, Maharashtra. 30 November: Fifty students from Government Degree College, Patancheru; and 50 students from Sericulture College, Chintamani, Karnataka.
ICRISAT Happenings 30 NovembER 2012/1547
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