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Science Now-In Passing

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A fifth of the world's population relies for sustenance on food grown in hostile conditions in the tropics.
Colin Tudge discovers how scientists at the International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in India are developing new crop varieties better suited to droughts, heat and poor soils.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Tudge
Producer:
Deborah Cohen
Source: Radio Times

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