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Bar to support IPB's corn and veg research in CMU and BSU
by Thea Kristina M. Pabuayon
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January-March
2000
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Due to the on-going budgetary cuts in Universities,
the Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB) in UP Los Baños
may have to cease the conduct of corn and vegetable research
in its Central Mindanao University (CMU) and Benguet State
University (BSU) stations, respectively.
To ensure that this does not happen, IPB has
appealed to the Bureau of Agricultural Research for financial
support. The project, which will have a duration of three
years, will require an amount of P1 million for the first
year to provide supplementary support to corn and vegetable
breeding at CMU and BSU as well as sustain the other research
efforts of IPB. According to IPB Director Violeta N. Villegas,
the financial aid will maintain the quality of developed corn
and vegetable varieties and warrant that targeted outputs
for the year are not compromised.
The IPB-CMU Experiment Station in Musuan Bukidnon
has remained as one of the major corn research areas. Since
its operation in the 70's, it has been successful at developing
yellow and white open pollinated corn varieties and hybrids
such as the Phil DMR series, IPB Vars 1, 2, 4, and 7, IPB
911, 913, 919, 929, and 9204.
At present, eight research activities will have
to be financially supported in CMU. These include increased
production of seeds of corn hybrids and varieties (IPB 9204,
IPB Var 1 and Var 4), observation nurseries for white, yellow,
and glutinous corn, and replicated yield trials for white
and yellow corn.
On the other hand, the IPB-BSU Highland Research
Project at La Trinidad has continued to pursue vegetable crops
breeding. Hybridization, evaluation trials, and seed increase
of crucifers, tomato, potato, garden pea, and snap bean have
been conducted since 1976 and these yielded several heat tolerant
and improved varieties that benefit growers, consumers, and
producers. Among these are banahaw, kennebec, cosima
and conchita (potato), corazon and esperanza
(chinese cabbage), blanca (radish), IPB Black Behi (pechay),
CGP-182, Hab-63, BBL-274, Blue Lake, B-21, and Taichung #1
(snap bean, CGP-13, CGP-14, and CGP-18 (garden pea), 27 F6
(tomato).
Like CMU, it has seven pending vegetable research
activities on seed increase of tomato hybrids, garden pea,
and snap bean, observational trials of salad and fresh tomato
lines, screening for late blight resistance in tomato, and
replicated yield trials of garden pea, pole snap bean, and
bush snap bean.
With this, IPB hopes to get the needed allocations
to maintain their corn and vegetable research work and continue
to produce improved varieties as their support to the government's
program for food security and poverty alleviation. 
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