Research and development in relation to the long-term prospects of diversification crops in MSIRI's mandate
| MSI99P2089 | |
| Govinden, N. | |
| Research and development in relation to the long-term prospects of diversification crops in MSIRI's mandate | |
| Antoine, R. (ed.), Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of Agricultural Scientists, Réduit, Mauritius, 12-13 June 1995 | |
| Book chapter | |
| 1996 | |
| p. 24-29 | |
| Réduit, Food and Agricultural Research Council (FARC), MU | |
| En | |
| En | |
| It has become necessary to conduct a mid-term review of MSIRI's 1993-1998 Research and Development (R and D) programme in order to take into consideration the rapid changes in the economy and the new agricultural diversification policy decided at the end of 1994 and to align it with the findings and recommendations of the National Long-Term Perspective Study also presented in 1994. For each of MSIRI's 5 mandate food crops, viz maize, potato, groundnut, bean and tomato, this paper first describes the current situation and competitiveness of local production and the expected evolution of the demand to the year 2020. Then, it analyses the future prospects in the light of the improvement in yield and the reduction in cost of production that can realistically be achieved, of the resultant changes in competitiveness and in financial attractiveness to growers and of the availability of the three most limiting production factors, viz land, labour and water. Then, it proposes appropriate production policies and desirable levels of involvement with R and D. Finally, it defines priorities of R and D in relation to the proposed production policies and the availability of funds and personnel. The special needs of Rodrigues are also considered. In view of the unavoidable competition with sugar cane for R and D resources, MSIRI's policy is to concentrate efforts on a few good options. Thus, involvement with vegetables (potato, tomato, vegetable corn, fresh groundnut and green bean) those prospects are good will be maintained or increased while involvement with pulse and grain crops (dry maize, dry groundnut and dry bean) whose prospects are poor will be reduced or minimized. | |
| AGRICULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION MAIZE POTATOES GROUNDNUTS BEANS (PHASEOLUS) TOMATOES PRODUCTION | |
| MAURITIUS | |
| Agricultural diversification | |
| 1996-02-27 | |
| En | |
| LIB | |
| CAT | |
| 1 | |
| FC |