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Priority
             Development         Research     Rationale/Objective of    level
              Challenges           Areas            Research
                                                                      (P/HP/UP)
                               Seed             Increase in seed        UP
                               production       production and
                               and fingerlings   fingerlings supply
                               supply           New practices and
                                                technologies for
                                                alternative sources of
                                                income of farmers
                                                and fisher folks.
         Low                   Waste          To develop new              P
         adoption/absence of   management     products from
         researches on the     and utilization   agricultural waste
         technologies on                      materials.
         waste management
         and utilization
         Low adoption on the   Development    To develop and              P
         post-harvest          and            introduce new
         technology            introduction of   processing
                               new            technologies.
                               processing
                               technologies
         Insufficient water    Water supply   To adopt or conduct         P
         supply especially in                 techno-demo on solar
         upland areas                         pad with submersible
                                              pump.
         Production of upland   Upland rice   To develop geospatial       P
         rice                  production     database management
                                              systems for planning,
                                              monitoring and
                                              evaluation.
         Lack of market        Agricultural   To identify new market      P
         linkage               economics      linkages of agriculture
                               and marketing   farms.
         High incidence of     Pest control     To   develop   new      HP
         pest and improper                       systems  to  control
         use of pesticides                       the  spread  of  major
                                                 agricultural pests.
                                                Development of
                                                 surveillance data



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