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January 3,Thursday
POSTCARDS FROM INDIA |
Facultymtgday2: Dr. Ronnie Coffman and Dr. K.V. Raman (center) hold a joint
Cornell-Thai-Indian faculty meeting on the first day in India. |
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Indian dancers & group day 2: Deepika Reddy (center) and her Kuchipudi dance troupe
performed classical Indian dances and then posed with the Indian, Thai and U.S. students.
Orientationday2: During the medical orientation, Dr. Rao advises the students that only
20 per cent of the snakes they are liable to meet in India are poisonous. [McCandless]
Henna day 2: (l-r) Kristina Park (Cornell), Chhaya Bhopal Patole (India), and Kawin
Punyokun (Thailand) display the henna art on their hands drawn by Indian artisans
during a special reception at ICRISAT involving traditional art, music and dance. [McCandless]
Kim Drawing day 2. Cornell student Kimberly Brown (center) sits for a charcoal drawing
during the reception while classmates wait in line. [McCandless]
 Safflowers & sorghum: We saw these experimental plantings of safflower (l) and sweet
sorghum (r) during a field tour of the International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid
Tropics (ICRISAT) where we are staying. ICRISAT focuses on the drought-tolerant cereals
and grains we saw growing like pearl millet, sorghum, chickpea, groundnuts, and
pigeonpea. These are subsistence crops for many people in the tropics and we are
eating them daily. [McCandless]
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Hyderabad airport-web: After a traditional welcome by our Indian hosts, the Cornell International Agriculture in the Developing Nations II (IARD 602) class poses with Thai and Indian counterparts at Hyderabad International Airport at 1 a.m. on Jan.3, 2008. It was a 32-hour trip for Ithaca students and faculty. [McCandless]
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Animal Sciences
Date – 3 Jan
Student – Elisha Blond
The entire group of students started the day with an introduction on how to stay healthy while visiting India from an Indian physician. Then Mr. Ragunathan gave a brief overview of Indian history in the past 100 years. He focused on Indian economy. After lunch, we viewed an informational video on International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and toured the fields by bus.
The animal sciences students then visited International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). We spoke with Dr.Micheal Blummel, who explained the role of ILRI within ICRISAT. We visited 2 research facilities. One study was using goats to determine the nutritional value and feed conversion of crop residues. The other facility had a herd of bulls with fistulated rumens, which were sampled and used for invitro studies.
In the evening, women drew mehendi on our hands and artists drew our portraits. We were lucky to be entertained by Ms Deepika Reddy’s dance troup, performing Kuchipudi Dance.
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