<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Proceedings of the international symposium on development and transfer of technology for rainfed agriculture and the SAT farmer</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:abstract>The work of an international agricultural research institute becomes meaningful only when the results can be effectively conveyed to their ultimate user — the farmer — through the scientists and extension agencies of the many nations served by that institute. It seemed appropriate to us that a symposium inaugurating the new facilities of ICRISAT Center  should focus on the development and transfer of technology for rainfed agriculture — a vital but hitherto largely neglected area of agricultural production that ICRISAT has a mandate to improve.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">1980</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Book</mods:genre></mods:mods>