Abstract
The semi-arid regions of the world are spread over 48 countries on four continents and cover a total area of nearly 20 million square kilometres. About 500 million people live there. Modern technology has only lightly touched the farmer of the semi-arid tropics. He uses little fertiliser; the soils he tills are often eroded and depleted of nutrients. The power he uses almost always is animal or human. His own productivity and that of his animals is generally low for a number of reasons, including disease and undernourishment. The most restrictive of his natural resources is water—limited in amount and distributed during a short rainy season in unpredictable and frequent heavy downpours. ICRISAT was created to help the 500 million people of the semi-arid tropics. The initials stand for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. The Institute was started in 1972 and is located at Hyderabad, India, centre of the semi-arid tropics.
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