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CABI first established a centre in India in 1948. Ever since, the centre has been implementing programmes and working with partners to help improve the lives of people and communities in the region.

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.

Contact us: CABI Publishing

CABI is a leading publisher of agriculture, veterinary, environment and public health products across India and South Asia, including CAB Abstracts, to support all 160+ ICAR institutes, agricultural universities and corporates in their research and continuing education.

CABI’s direct publishing sales operations were established in India in Oct 2009 to service institutional and academic subscribers, distributors, corporates and partners across South Asia and is headed by Mr Tirumal Rao. T: +91 9866 000357 Email: t.rao@cabi.org

Contact us

Dr Vinod Pandit

Regional Director, South Asia

2nd Floor, CG Block, NASC Complex, DP Shastri Marg, New Delhi - 110012, India

T: +91 9910182288

E: v.pandit@cabi.org

CABI - India

2nd Floor, CG Block, NASC Complex, DP Shastri Marg, Opp. Todapur Village, PUSA, New Delhi - 110012, India

T: +91 (0) 11 2584 1906

Centre staff

Arun Jadhav

Manager – Digital Development

Kritika Khanna

Business Development and Communications Officer

Tirumal Rao

Regional Sales Manager, South Asia

Madhu Manjari

Agri-Digital Tools Coordinator for South Asia

Dr Vinod Pandit

Regional Director, South Asia

Akanksha Nagpal

Project Coordinator South Asia

Manju Thakur

Knowledge bank Coordinator

Malvika Chaudhary

Global team leader - Digital tool promotion

PlantwisePlus Blog

Empowering women farmers with digital tools in India

8th March 2024
PlantwisePlus Blog

Digital advisory tools: reaching last-mile users in India

11th January 2024
CABI Blog

CABI conducts workshop in India to help pave the way for better FAIR data processes in agriculture

8th January 2024
PlantwisePlus Blog

Boosting the usage of CABI's digital tools through communication, collaboration, and co-creation

2nd October 2023

Documents

CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 11

October - December 2023

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 10

May - September 2023

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 9

January - April 2023

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 8

October - December 2022

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 7

July - September 2022

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 5 & 6

January - June 2022

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 4

September - December 2021

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 2 & 3

April - August 2021

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CABI News Bulletin Asia - Issue 1

January - March 2021

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Related projects

CABI Project
Seeing is Believing – empowering farmers with smartphone imaging

Many farmers in the northern Indian states of Haryana and Punjab still rely on inefficient agricultural practices that are ill adapted to climate change. Data can help them. Customised advice, based on localised weather and soil data, pests and diseases, as well as input availability, can improve management practices, productivity and profitability. In this project, farmers will provide images taken from their smartphones to strengthen this advice and help farmers make timely decisions.

Start:01/10/17 -End:31/12/20