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Taro in Madagascar
• Orphan crops • Contribute to food
security • Contribute to
farmer’s income • Closely linked with
pork production in some region (Itasy, Vakinankaratra, etc.)
Research on Taro in Madagascar
FOFIFA • Does not have a special
Programme on Taro • Involved in the issues
related to rural development at national level
• Needs from the agriculture department to identify Taro diseases (eastern region) and to introduce resistant varieties
FIFAMANOR • Starts research
activities in 2000 • As collaborative project
with the national Programme de Soutien pour le Développement Rural (PSDR)
Germplasm
• 54 cultivars ( 22 local cultivars, and 32 varieties from Vanuatu)
• Maintained in field and in vitro
Biotic stresses for taro (C. esculenta) and cocoyam (X. sagittifolium),
• Mealybugs • Caterpillars • Aphids
• Fungus diseases (Cladosporiose, Phytiose)
• Nematods
Previous breeding experiences with edible aroids
• Introduction of new cultivars
• Micropropagation • Field multiplication • Participatory
breeding with farmers
Farmers' needs
• Availability of resistant to diseases varieties
• Improve Taro production • Taro with improved taste • Availability of varieties adapted to
different agro-ecological conditions
Expectations from the proposed global project
• To broaden genetic diversity of Taro • To develop varieties resistant to
diseases and to drough • To improve Taro production • To produce Taro with improved taste • To enhance national capacity on: rapid
propagation of new varieties, identification of Taro diseases
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