| Introduction, evaluation and adoption of improved landraces and rehabilitation of superior local cultivars of banana for food and income generation |
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Duration
Start date
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Ongoing
January 2004
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| Total grant |
$721 000 |
| Donor |
Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR) |
| Location |
• Bureau of Plant Industry- DNCRDC, Davao
• Institute of Plant Breeding- University of the Philippines, Los Banos
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| Goal |
The goal of the project is to enhance the availability of improved disease-free varieties and clean planting materials through a National Repository Multiplication and Distribution Centre for banana farmers as part of an integrated banana production development strategy to improve food production and generate income for the banana sector. |
| Brief description |
Recent surveys in the Philippines indicated that small-scale banana farms are seriously devastated by BBTV, bugtok, fusarium wilt and black sigatoka, severely affecting the farmers who do not have the economic and technical capabilities to manage these diseases. Since large plantation owners in Mindanao can control pests and diseases through the use of chemicals, they are able to dominate the banana market in Luzon and Visayas. This resulted to higher banana consumer price and has removed the traditional source of income to many smallholders. A drastic move is therefore needed to rehabilitate the disease-infested Philippine banana industry.
Towards this end, a strategic approach is to develop an integrated banana management technique. The two-pronged approach includes the introduction of improved hybrids that are disease resistant and rehabilitation of the popular local cultivars by promotion and use of clean planting materials, through tissue culture and virus indexing technology. Both introduced varieties and popular local cultivars are maintained as disease-free foundation stocks at the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture and the Institute of Plant Breeding of the University of the Philippines Los Banos, both are designated as the National Respository, Multiplication and Distribution Centres. In turn, these centers supply virus-free foundation stocks to private commercial tissue culture laboratories for mass production and sale to nursery operators. The improved hybrids and local varieties are also being multiplied at these centres for evaluation and distribution to researchers and farmers. In the project’s one and a half years of implementation, the outputs are as follows :
1. Germplasm maintenance, multiplication, and distribution of improved and superior banana varieties at BPI-DNCRDC and IPB-UPLB
2. Farmer participatory characterization, evaluation, and selection of improved and superior banana varieties at BPI-DNCRDC
3. In-depth evaluation against sigatoka and fusarium wilt at BPI-DNCRDC
4. Morphological characterization and yield performance evaluation at IPB-UPLB
5. Sensory and product evaluation at IPB-UPLB
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| Partners |
• Bureau of Plant Industry-DNCRDC, Davao, Philippines
• Institute of Plant Breeding, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines;
• Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Agricultural Research, Diliman Quezon City Philippines
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| Coordination |
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