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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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