About

South Asia is agriculture-oriented – more than 50% of the population is engaged in agriculture as its primary occupation. The region produces some key food security crops, and is responsible for feeding a significant proportion of the world.

CABI’s centre in India works to improve the lives of local people and communities in the region, through a variety of methods. It helps smallholder farmers to improve the quality and quantity of their crops, enabling them to achieve better prices, and works to increase opportunities for trade. It also provides training and access to knowledge for farmers that will help them to improve crop quality whilst safeguarding the environment.

Specific programmes include the regional implementation of CABI’s global Plantwise initiative, which aims to help farmers lose fewer crops to pests and diseases, and thus increase their yields.  The use of safe biological controls is encouraged, and trained extension workers hold free advisory plant clinics for farmers in the local area.

The centre collaborates with a number of public, private and governmental bodies across the region, to enable the effective and efficient implementation of programmes, and to enable impact to be studied. Work so far has yielded tangible economic and social benefits for the local communities, as well as the environment.

Future aims include the establishment of a sustainable CABI presence in each country of the region, and attracting sustainable investment funding for the centre’s various agriculture and environment initiatives.

CABI Publishing

CABI is a global leader in agriculture, veterinary, environmental and public health information. We support researchers, educators and professionals across India, South Asia, the Gulf countries, Egypt and the wider MENA region with trusted resources such as CAB Abstracts, the Compendium and e-Books.

CABI’s extensive collection of research, knowledge and tools is accessed by students, researchers and faculty across universities in agriculture, horticulture, environment, human health, nutrition, food science, tourism, forestry, veterinary sciences, as well as institutions including governments, private-funded and leading corporates, and those institutions and universities affiliated to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

Since establishing our direct publishing operations in India in October 2009, we have focused on delivering dedicated support and services to institutions, academics, distributors, agents, and vendor partners across these regions.

Publishing Sales Operations across South Asia and the Middle East are led by our Regional Sales Manager:

Mr Tirumal Rao
T: +91 9866 000357
Email: t.rao@cabi.org