Arshni Sanjita Shandil
Fiji 2018
Arshni Sanjita Shandil enjoys tackling the challenges that her research assignments at the Pacific Community’s CePaCT bring. “I mainly work in the lab and screen house but would really love to work in the field,” says the married mother of one. Shandil’s research work involves the mass propagation of climate-ready crops for the Pacific Island countries and tissue culture conservation of banana, bele, breadfruit, ginger, taro, sweet potato, and yams.
I mainly work in the lab and screen house but would really love to work in the field,” says the married mother of one. Shandil’s research work involves the mass propagation of climate-ready crops for the Pacific Island countries and tissue culture conservation of banana, bele, breadfruit, ginger, taro, sweet potato, and yams.
Field of Research
Shandil’s research work involves the mass propagation of climateready crops for the Pacific Island countries and tissue culture conservation of banana, bele, breadfruit, ginger, taro, sweet potato, and yams.

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