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The national RDE program for ornamental crops
by Laarni C. Anenias
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October-December
2001
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A few years ago, experts in the ornamental industry
identified R&D activities and lack of government support
as two areas where the Philippines has rated poorly. Thus,
with the combined efforts of the Bureau of Agricultural Research
(BAR), University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB), and
Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural
Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), the national
RDE program for ornamental crops was developed.
 Guided
by a vision of improving the ornamentals R&D, this network
pursues its mission of shaping the country's policies and
directions to create a more conducive industry scenario in
generating and promoting relevant technologies.
Program themes
The program works along themes that are aimed to help the
local industry become more globally competitive. These are
as follows:
Sustained productivity and increased profitability
through cost-efficient production system
Quality enhancement through post-production systems improvement
Human- and environment-friendly pest management systems
Biodiversity conservation, development, and utilization
Investment strategies, advocacy, and policy reforms for global
competitiveness
Promotion of appropriate and sustainable technologies
Products
The program covers four groups of commodity lines: cutflowers,
cut and containerised foliage plants, flowering pot plants
and landscaping materials, and processed ornamentals (e.g.
flowers, leaves, branches that are dyed or dried).
Cutflowers, as the name suggests, are flowers
cut from their stems. Used as centerpiece in any floral arrangement,
cutflowers are indeed the most common ornamental commodity.
The cut and containerised foliage plant group consists of
fresh leaves, twigs, and branches that often go with cutflowers
in floral arrangements and foliage plants grown in containers.
Flowering annuals, shrubs, herbaceous perennials
grown in containers, evergreens, and turfgrass compose the
group on flowering pot plants and landscaping materials. Processed
ornamentals, on the other hand, are those that have been slightly
altered through drying, dyeing, and other processing methods.
For each commodity line, there are six disciplines
where research activities are aligned: production, postharvest,
crop protection, socioeconomics and marketing, crop improvement
and conservation, and policy and advocacy.
UPLB is the lead agency in the program's implementation,
monitoring, and evaluation. Institutional members of the network
are as follows:
- Benguet State University
- Cavite State University
- Leyte State University
- Central Mindanao University
- Bureau of Plant Industry - Los Banos National Crop Research
and Development Center
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Vol. 3 No. 4 October-December 2001
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»» Thailand,
Philippines convene for agri cooperation
»»
Prospects for the ornamental industry in the new millennium
»» UPLB
scientists develop new hybrids of Philippine ornamentals
»» New management
techniques for exportable foliage plants
»» In
focus: a date with the "king of cut flowers"
»» Brighten
your homes with aglaonema
»» King
in red and green
»» Cashing
in with the 'lucky bamboo'
»» Turfgrasses:
the preferred ground cover
»» Catching
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»» Grow
dracaena godseffiana the easy way
»» Bromeliads:
the exotic plant
»» Wag that
fish-tail fern
»» Mass
propagating the 'doņas' through kulob system
»» Beauveria
mold bioinsecticide: safer control against orchid pests
»» Orchids
and mycorrhiza: a lesson from the wild
»» Controlling
white rust in chrysanthemums
»» Ways to
enhance palm seed germination
»» Prolonging
the vase life of cut flowers with ethylene adsorbent and Florafresh
»»
Mass producing the fragrant kamuning
»» The
national RDE program for ornamental crops
»» GMA
presents 2001 Gawad Saka awards
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