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

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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

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Objective

• Improve Rural Income and Health through
  profitable and sustainable Fruit Sector
• Information management and dissemination
• Germplasm utilization
• Production systems and practices
• Processing
• Marketing

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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

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R x D Strategy
Product Quality Market Demand
Identify target, problems, bottlenecks solutions
Product Concept
Identify partners
CIAT, CG, NARS, Universities, Private Sector
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Multi-disciplinary approach
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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

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Current species targeted
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Participatory selection of elite clones
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Propagation of tropical species
Free of pathogens
Rapid and inexpensive
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Characterization of genetic diversity
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Plant regeneration and transformation
Lulo
Regeneration Bottleneck in many species
Mango
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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
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Information Sharing
New World Fruits Database (IPGRI, CIAT, CIRAD)
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Generic Research
TOOLS
Homologue (2005)

• Information systems based on GIS combined with
  data collection, expert and local knowledge
• Collect data on a crop that grows in several
  sites
• Characterize the sites
• Look for homologous areas with similar conditions

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Summary

• Objective Generate rural income
• 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.
• Multidisciplinary approach Multiple partners
  (public, private, NARS, CG system, Universities,
  NGOs)
• Carry out generic research
• Enhance delivery and adoption
• Develop public goods (elite clones,
  methodologies, tools, information and scientific
  publications)