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About ABSP II
The developing world can benefit from advances in biotechnology, but much needs to be done to make bio-engineered products available in forms that formers can use. The Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II (ABSPII) believes that farmers and consumers worldwide should have the opportunity to make informed choices about using......
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Message from K.Vijayaraghavan
While the private sector has progressed in enlarging the acreage of cultivation of genetically engineered crops over the last ten years, the public sector has taken time to catch up due to initial limitations in accessing patented biological materials and process technologies essential to developing transgenic lines......
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Activities and Programs

SOCIO ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDY FOR FRUIT AND SHOOT BORER RESISTANT EGGPLANT

ABSPII commissioned a detailed socio-economic impact assessment study that was carried out by Dr. Matin Quim and V.V.Krishna of the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. The study, carried out over 18 months, involved interaction with a cross-section of stakeholders. The study was focused on  “Estimating the Adoption of Bt Eggplant in India and profiling the stakeholders who would gain from Public-Private Partnership”......
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News

To Bangladesh, with love, ABSPII delivers LBR resistant potato lines & hope.
Potato late blight, caused by the pathogen Phytophthora infestans, continues to be a major constraint to global potato production. Late blight was a major cause of the Irish Potato Famine of the mid-1800s during which an estimated 1 million people starved to death. Today, the disease remains a problem worldwide and ranks among the most important disease problems facing potato growers. It is a serious constraint for potato ......
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Scientists from ABSPII partner institutions visit Potato fields in Minnesota, USA.
Senior Scientists from the Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI, India) and the Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI)  visited the potato late blight test sites at the University of Minnesota to witness the field testing The trials confirmed the efficacy of the RB gene in controlling late blight.
John P. Helgeson, Plant Pathologist in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Plant Disease Resistance Research Unit ......
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ABSPII partners meet with science/business correspondents from Indian media
ABSPII partners for the Fruit and Shoot Borer Resistant Eggplant (Brinjal) participated in a press conference held in New Delhi on the 4th July 2006 to provide comprehensive information on the partnership structure, source of technology, current status of development and the goals of the public sector and private sector partners in delivering fruit and shoot borer resistant eggplant seeds to farmers ......
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Global Leaders meet in Bellagio, Italy to develop strategies for wider application of life science technologies for PUBLIC GOOD.
Twenty-five leading experts, representing global research institutions, the Associations of Technology managers, and philanthropic funding bodies such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Department for International Development (DFID, UK), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, met in Bellagio, Italy for three days. Participants discussed opportunities for pooling intellectual assets for public good application that could enhance farm income ......
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Cornell University and Sathguru to bring public and private seed sector together for interactive learning

Cornell University and Sathguru will be holding a four day course from March 21-25, 2007, that will bring together the leaders of the seed industry in the South Asian and South East Asian region and senior administrators from the public sector to deliberate ......

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Contact Us

India Office:

Mr. K. Vijayaraghavan
ABSPII South Asia Regional Coordination Office
Sathguru Management Consultants
Plot No. 15, Hindi Nagar, Punjagutta
Hyderabad, India - 500 034
Phone: +91(040)2335 6975, 2335 6507, 2335 0586
5561 2352, 5578 6148, 5566 2190
Fax: +91(040)2335 4042
Email: vijay@sathguru.com
Website: www.sathguru.com
 

US Office:

Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II
International Programs, 213 Rice Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
USA Phone: +1.607.255.6357
Fax: +1.607.255.8186
Email: alm62@cornell.edu
 

Bangladesh Office:

Dr Gour Pada Das
Country Coordinator, ABSPII
House 18, Road 4, Sector 4, Uttara Dhaka, Bangladesh
Phone: +88-02-8913064
Fax: +88-02-8913064 ext 124
Email: absp2bd@cimmytbd.org
gpdas@agni.com