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Appendix 17

Research Thrusts/Agenda Program by Discipline:

I. Agriculture

• High value vegetables
• Fruit crops – mango, banana, pineapple, papaya, dragon fruit
• Beverages – coffee
• Plantation crops – coconut, yellow corn
• Ornamental plants

2. Swine and Poultry
3. Forestry
4. Environmental Services
5. Wood fuel and Bio-fuels
6. Environment and Natural Resources
7. Socio Economics
8. Education
9. Health, Food and Nutrition
10. Information and Communications Technology
11. Industrial Technology

The R and D programs include, but are not limited to, the following
problem areas:

1. Crops

• Improving production system
• Reducing post harvest losses
• Improving processing and marketing efficiencies
• Accelerating technology adoption
• Improving processing technologies

2. Animals

• Enhancing competitiveness and sustainability of commercial animal
production
• Building assets from sustained small livestock and poultry-based
enterprise

Forestry

• Development of processing machine for oil extraction and its
utilization for bio-ethanol
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