Transcript Tropical fruits. Bringing the benefits to small holders Alonso González- CIAT

Tropical fruits.
Bringing the benefits to small holders
Alonso González- CIAT
Why Tropical Fruits?
• High Value Product, key for improving rural
livelihood (business and employment)
• Bulk of production of tropical fruits by small
farmers
• Increasing demand in national and international
markets.
• Perennial and semi-perennial species
• Perennial species key in controlling erosion and
preserving watersheds
MISSION
• “To enhance competitiviness of
smallholder producers of tropical
fruits by providing information
and tecnologies that lead to better
production practices, facilitate
access to markets and and will
increase household income”
Objective
• Improve Rural Income and Health
through profitable and sustainable Fruit
Sector
 Information management and
dissemination
 Germplasm utilization
 Production systems and practices
Processing
 Marketing
ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
• Large biodiversity: Where to focus?
• Germplasm
•Risks of genetic erosion due to population pressure
•Transfer
most sp fruits not listed
Quarantine matters
Biopiracy
• Conservation at CIAT
•Long term storage of seeds
•Cryo-conservation
•In vitro
Apply to only few species of fruits
R x D Strategy
Product Quality: Market Demand
Identify target, problems,
bottlenecks & solutions
Product Concept
Identify partners
CIAT, CG, NARS, Universities, Private Sector
Multi-disciplinary approach
Selection of genetic
material
Evaluation and
characterization
Regional tests
Difussion and
training
Activities
Institutional Technologies
Results
Development of methods for massive and effective production of low
cost planting material
New germplasm
selected
Innovation
System
Established
• Workshops to conform
networks (Agents of
Innovation for Rural
Agroindustry (GIARs)).
• Complementary baseline
studies and establishment
of monitoring and
evaluation system
• Germplasm evaluation
(banks, participatory
selection, breeding)
Germplasm
evaluated and tested
for production and
markets
Regional testing of
germplasm and
IPCM using
participatory
approaches
innonvation
System
Consolidated
Elite germplasm and
clean production
practices improved
and widely
implemented.
Innovation
System
Functioning
• Molecular characterization
of main pathogens of lulo
and mora
• Establish Agents of
Innovation for Rural
Agroindustry (GIARs)).
• Establishment of service
providers (inputs and
planting material)
• Agronomic evaluation of
germplasm (Exp. Station)
• Workshops to collect local
and expert knowledge
• Market assessment of elite
clones (fresh, industry)
• Participatory evaluation of
germplasm, IPM and IPCM
(farmer’s field)
• Development of grower to
grower knowledge
networks
• Development and testing of
bio-control agents
• Product assessment in
different markets
• Analysis of Cost-benefit of
new technologies and
production systems
• Widespread implementation
of project developed
technologies and
knowledge by massive
communication media
Priority Species - Criteria
• Commitment of a partner
• Tropical fruit
• Grown/used by thousands of small
holders
• Established market (local, regional or
international)
• Ongoing work on: Several spp Tree tomato, Lulo
Passionfruit, Avocado, Raspberry.
• Indigenous crops
• Under Utilized sp (if meet above criteria)
• Platform for scaling up
Current species targeted
Participatory selection of elite clones
Identification and Selection of elite material Multiplication and evaluation
in GH and in vitro
Massive propagation in vitro under field conditions
Garden of clones
of elite material
Propagation of tropical species
Free of pathogens
Rapid and inexpensive
Characterization of genetic diversity
ASP CV61
ASP AV62
1958 Patron
ASP V48
Anona glabra
Anona montana
AMON V51
AMON VI52
1959 Patron
AMON H53
AMON V54
AMUR H32
AMUR V11
AMUR V1
Biriba
ASP GN31
ASP GV342
ASP VA35
ASP V42
ASP V36
ASP BR60
ASP GV34
ASP V46
1920 Patron
Cabeza de Nenegro
Anona Colorada
ASP CU63
ASP VR65
ASP VR66
Chirimoya
ASP V21
ASP Q22
ASP V47
ASP V45
ASP PR49
ASP V43
ASP V41
ASP V20
ASP V59
ASP T64
Anona Blanca
Cadmia
Bandas de
AFLPs
0.00
0.25
0.50
0.75
1.00
Plant regeneration and transformation
Lulo
Regeneration: Bottleneck in
many species
Mango
Disease management using bio-products
Moko (Ralstonia spp.) controlled using
Lixiviate from plantain bunch waste.
Good effect on controlling Black
Sigatoke.
Easily produced in rural areas
Information Sharing
New World Fruits Database (IPGRI, CIAT, CIRAD)
Generic Research
TOOLS
Homologue® (2005)
Information systems based on GIS combined
with data collection, expert and local
knowledge
1. Collect data on a crop that grows in several sites
2. Characterize the sites
3. Look for homologous areas with similar conditions
Summary
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Objective: Generate rural income
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Multidisciplinary approach: Multiple partners
(public, private, NARS, CG system, Universities,
NGOs)
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Market driven: demand and product quality
Exploits on farm variability to select elite clones
Overcome biotic and abiotic constraints through
genetic solutions and management practices.
• Carry out generic research
• Enhance delivery and adoption
Develop public goods (elite clones, methodologies,
tools, information and scientific publications)