Anurag Ajay

High rice&wheat production costs, further worsened by climate extremes, limit smallholder profits in #Bihar.A #newstudy shows closing profit gaps could raise profits in rice (38%) & wheat (35%).Identifying strategic levers is crucial to unlock gains & support poverty alleviation.

At @CIMMYT's #SIW2025, the poster 'Unlocking Profit Potential of Smallholders’ Rice and Wheat Fields in Eastern India', highlights four key factors critical to enhancing smallholder farmers’ economic well-being. Read more👇🏻

🌱 Discover our mission at #CIMMYT towards a #FoodSecure future for all. Creating strategies that focus on #Innovation and #Sustainability, we are driving lasting impact. 💡 Learn more ⬇️

Our monthly #writing retreat is in full swing 📝🤩 Good progress on the manuscripts and proposals before the weekend💃🏿 @madapegue @Wang_Pokemon @AnuragAjay3 @marcus038966326 @UFZ_de @iamoLeibniz

@delhivery Big claims but pathetic service. AWB - 1381920235396 Not able/intend to deliver saying attempt failed thrice. In reality, the guy never goes to the address. Super cheap team of @help_delhivery Don't ask me for more details if you can't trace through AWB.

@SugandhaMunshi @arvindpadhee @virender02 @irri @isarcofficial Waoo...it turned out to be a wonderful crop. Pic of the same plot one month before.

Thank you for sharing this and your motivational words, sir @arvindpadhee @virender02 @irri @isarcofficial

@CIMMYT Congratulations 👏 🎊

🌿 🎉 Congratulations to Sieg Snapp, director of CIMMYT’s SAS program, on receiving the 2023 International Soil Science Award! Her pioneering work in soil health is reshaping agrifood systems worldwide. #SoilScience #AgricultureInnovation #CIMMYT bit.ly/3ttw9YB

@Laura_UC_Moritz @iamoLSG @LenaMKuhn Congratulations 👏

#DYK that all concepts added to #AGROVOC by the @CGIAR-AGROVOC curation team are found here 👉agrovoc.fao.org/skosmosOneCGIA… ? @FAOAIMS @BiovIntCIAT_eng @CIMMYT @Cipotato @ICARDA @IFPRI @IITA_CGIAR @ILRI @IRRI @IWMI_ @WorldFishCenter

Small things around might be of more interest than things that are big and bright - 🐇 in this case.

After unusually high🌡of summer (>30°C), some drizzle made the morning pleasurable in Germany 🇩🇪.

@Rahulkumar_IAS Very fortunate! Your number is in +ve. People sometimes get -ve value as well i.e. you pay more if you cancel. Airlines think that it is an intelligent act, but in reality, it is a bad economics - this calculation reduces their revenue. Sounds strange but true....

Happening now @CSISAProject Phase 4.0 (India) '2022 Review & 2023 Workplan' meeting in Bhubaneshwar-#Odisha. Project leadership discuss ongoing activities, new developments/challenges and deliverables in the year/s ahead. #AgR4D Read more on CSISA Phase 4@ bit.ly/3SsSLRd

Every drop counts, but small #farm size limits poverty reduction in Eastern #India, even with #irrigation-led intensification. Data from 15.5 K farmers shows reducing #poverty needs irrigation, #crop #diversification & off-farm #jobs. Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We released one of our largest agronomic research trial data in the public domain. Data talks about how adjustment in planting time and varieties can improve wheat yield in eastern IGP, India. @CSISAProject @CIMMYT @irri @BMGFIndia mdpi.com/2306-5729/8/2/…

Large survey dataset of rice production practices applied by farmers o... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

If any batsman on earth start getting the feeling that he is better than @imVkohli - watch 5th ball of 19th over of Indian side in #INDvsPAK during #T20WorldCup2022 Such feeling will disappear forever.

Almost true...

Realtime evidence generation of crop yield & production practices through Land Diagnostic Survey #LDS research, India. August 28-30, Kolkata: #CSISAProject Phase 4.0, Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop to support LDS in select districts with KVKs. #capacitybldg #PPS #ODK

Our new paper just out in @NatureFoodJnl shows that sowing time can fill the wheat yield gaps by 30%, we established that effective management through timely planting is a precondition for rural transformation and achieving regional food security. nature.com/articles/s4301…