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Priorities for 2020 onward
 Pest and disease management/surveillance
 Product development, including harnessing pharmaceutical and other uses of
aquatic species
 Improving the management of fishery resources

 Offshore fisheries and oceanography
 Roll out of various technologies

D. Forestry R&D Agenda
The following agenda are in support of the government’s Enhanced National Greening
Program (ENGP):
1. Development and sustainable management practices
2. Development of high yielding varieties (HYVs) of priority timber species with
superior traits
3. Production protocols for the propagation of quality timber and non-timber forest
planting materials
4. Development of sustainable harvesting and postharvest techniques/technologies
and marketing strategies for timber and non-timber forest species/products

Priorities for 2018-2019
 Genomics assisted breeding for economically important traits of forest species
 Germplasm conservation and management of selected indigenous tree species
 Assessment of forest genetic materials of different tree species
 Pest and disease control
 Establishment of nursery facility for plantation trees

Priorities for 2020 onward
 Roll out of technologies such as high yielding clones, furnace type lumber dryer,
engineered bamboo
 Development of high value products

E. Natural Resources and Environment R&D Agenda
1. Sustainable utilization, conservation and management of biodiversity in terrestrial,
forestry and marine ecosystems
2. Sustainable watershed management and utilization
3. Management and rehabilitation of problem, degraded and polluted agricultural
soils through remediation
4. Development of high value products from agricultural and forest wastes
5. Strategies/decision management tools for climate change resilient environment
6. Resource and ecosystems assessment and monitoring
7. Habitat management for fishery and ecosystem sustainability

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