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STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1: Enhance Quality of Programs in Research, Extension, and Teaching
Program 1. Agricultural Innovation and Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Goals
Key Actions
Indicators/Measures of Success
Conduct innovative research to boost productivity and competitiveness as central elements of food and nutritional security.
Develop innovative and relevant science-based management practices.
Prepare and support producers to apply competitive, sustainable, and inclusive business models in agriculture.
Increase profit and productivity of emerging and exiting industries
Educate local consumers about the need to buy local as an important step towards true sustainability
• Improve tropical/subtropical fruits, vegetables, ornamental, and agronomic plant cultures through genetics and breeding.
• Introduce new high value crops and materials needed for an industry to emerge. Target crops include vanilla, specialty orchids, dragon fruit, papaya, passionfruit.
• Develop invasive and endemic pest and disease monitoring and management systems.
• Improve and adapt remote sensing and precision agriculture technologies to enhance sustainable agricultural systems.
• Increase the integration of basic and applied research to benefit extension and outreach.
• Develop and adopt more drought-, flood-, salinity-, and disease-resistant fruit and vegetable varieties, and agronomic and ornamental plant cultivars.
• Develop economically viable and sustainable horticultural practices and production and marketing systems.
• Conduct economic assessment and monitoring of existing and future industries.
• Conduct crosscutting research and deliver innovative issue-based extension outreach.
• Development and release of improved tropical/subtropical fruits, vegetables, ornamental, and agronomic plants.
• Identification and establishment of new plant industries that complement existing farm enterprises; creation of new opportunities.
• Number of measures being adopted to control or eliminate pests and diseases, including trans-boundary diseases.
• Development of new cultivars that require less maintenance and fewer inputs.
• Increased adoption of new technologies and diversification of ag industries.
• Increased number of science- based practices developed and shared among stakeholders.
• Development and adoption of more drought-, salinity-, and flood- and disease-tolerant plant varieties.
• Survey results showing extent of meeting commercial agriculture research needs.
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