The BISA facilities at Pusa, India, received a welcome guest on 17 March 2012, when Bihar Cabinet Minister, Giriraj Singh, visited to participate in a farm festival organized by the regional station of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI). Accompanied by CIMMYT researchers Raj Gupta, Ajai Kumar, and Raj Kumar, Singh visited wheat varietal and long-term conservation agriculture (CA) trials, and even took made some observations himself on penetration resistance (soil compaction) in eight CA plots.
