The International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics(ICRISAT) is located at ?

The correct answer is D) Hyderabad. ICRISAT's headquarters is at Patancheru, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana. It was founded in 1972 as one of the international agricultural research centres under the CGIAR system.

The other options are wrong because none of these cities hosts ICRISAT. Kolkata and Patna have no such headquarters. Bhubaneswar hosts national-level institutions, but not this one.

• Core concept: ICRISAT works on dryland crops such as sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut, which are grown in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa.
• Syllabus link: This sits under Agriculture and Food Security in the Economy section. For Mains, it connects to nutri-cereals, climate-resilient farming and the revival of millets after the International Year of Millets in 2023.

Trap: Aspirants often mix up ICRISAT with ICAR, which is headquartered in New Delhi and is India's national agricultural research body. ICRISAT is an international organisation, not an ICAR institute.