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Technology Forecasts
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Banana
The Philippine government envisions for
long-term R&D interventions that
generate basic information and technologies
to ensure improved productivity and
competitive quality banana products. R&D
utilization will accelerate promotion and
adoption of technologies. This will ensure
sustainability of production, likewise, socioeconomic
studies will help focus the R&D
needs of the industry as well as develop
marketing strategies for selected banana
varieties. Table 18 presents the technology
forecasts for the next 5–10 years.
Mango
For the mango industry to be more
competitive, an improve systems approach,
which should lead to an increase of quality
fruits on industry-wide basis, will be
adopted to address the specific technology
needs of identified systems for mango and
provide models to demonstrate the viability
of transforming the disaggregated system
into an integrated one. It will support
research activities towards sustaining the
momentum gained by the previous projects
on mango. Technologies to be developed will
serve as instruments for the transformation
of the mango industry into a more efficient
and integrated sector (Table 19).
Table 18. Technology forecasts on banana.
Area R&D Gaps Technology Forecasts
Preproduction
Variety Long-term germplasm conservation Within five years, long-term germplasm
(e.g., tissue culture, cryopreservation) conservation technique shall have
needs to be developed. (3–5 years) been developed.
Resistant cultivars to major pests
with improved horticultural
characteristics through genetic
engineering needs to be developed.
(ten years)
Within ten years, genetically engineered
cultivars resistant to major pests
with improved horticultural traits
shall have been developed.
Propagation Micropropagation technique needs Within five years, micropropagation
to be further improved.
technique shall have been improved.
(3–5 years)
Strategic locations of TC labs and Within five years, TC labs shall have
techno transfer (D) need to be
been established in strategic
identified. (3–5 years)
locations (D).
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