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April 1-15, 2001
R&D Program readies Muslim MIndanao for
global market
This is the right time to harness Muslim
Mindanao's vast agriculture and fishery potentials,
making it ready to compete in the global market.
This is the emphasis of the Bureau of
Agricultural Research (BAR) Director Eliseo R. Ponce's
message when he presented the R&D Program's major
initiatives and conceptual framework during the formal
launching of the program at the Southern Philippines
Development Authority (SPDA) Training Center, Zamboanga
City last 26 March 2001.
The Program is part of the government's
initiatives to make Mindanao the food basket of the
Philippines and to counter the misallocation of R&D
investment in the last few decades. Specifically, the
program has three major components: saving biodiversity,
strengthening the R&D capacity through infrastructure
and human resource development, and development of community-based
pilot projects. The strategic areas covered by the program
Regions 9, 12, and ARMM.
To save biodiversity, the program will
maintain a collection of economically important fruit
trees and plants in Sulu and Maguindanao, and conserve
endemic fishery resources in Lake Lanao. This is a major
consideration of the program since Mindanao is the primary
source of many agri-based products such as tuna, corn,
banana, seaweeds, and pineapple, which have established
production and marketing tie-ups with large local and
foreign agribusiness corporations.
To fully operationalize the program's
major components, infrastructure development will be
done. 
April 1-15 2001 Articles: ::
BAR takes info tech for interactive R&D community
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Biocon-based IPM: better control against ACB
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R&D ManCom tackles major concerns; DA structure reviewed
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R&D Program readies Muslim MIndanao for global market
::: More April 2001 articles :::
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