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Participatory breeding of superior, mosaic disease-resistant cassava: enhancing uptake
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| Coordinating organisation: | Natural Resources Institute |
| Description: | Objectives: Benefits for poor people generated by application of new knowledge on crop protection to annual and herbaceous crops in Forest Agriculture production systems. Background: In a collaborative project with PSRP, about 2,000 cassava seedlings from superior, CMD-resistant parents have been grown amongst three communities of Ghanaian cassava farmers. A process was validated whereby farmers and a multidisciplinary team of scientists collaborated together throughout the initial seedling generation and just four subsequent clonal generations to select out 39 superior diseases-resistant clones acceptable to all three groups of participants. The criteria for each were recorded throughout this process. Although yield was important to the farmers, qualitative criteria were also important. Disease resistance was selected for during this process. This is the first time the latter has been reported during participatory breeding and contradicts the concept that diseases are less 'apparent' to farmers than, for example, insect feeding damage. |
| Budget (in &euro): | 49621 |
| Internet: | Projects Link |
| Start: | 2005-04-01 |
| End: | 2006-01-30 |
| Species: | cassava |
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| ARD-theme: | plant production |
| Target country: | Ghana |
| Commodity: | plant products (agroforest) |
| Activity: | research |
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| Donor organisations: | 1 |
| Participating organisations: | 4 |
| Last editing: | 2006-07-17 14:28:42 |