Detalle

Next Generation Sweet Potato Production in the Caribbean

Código: 5447-00

País: Jamaica

Inicio: 15/08/2024

Finalización: 15/08/2028

Tipo: Proyectos de Cooperación Técnica

Descripción

The project "The Next Generation Sweet Potato Production in the Caribbean," funded by the FAO's International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources, aims to enhance food security by improving sweet potato production in three target countries. It focuses on increasing access to high-quality planting material through policies for "clean planting material" movement, providing virus-free seeds of local varieties, introducing new varieties to boost production, and identifying types suitable for value-added processing.

Objetivo General:

To boost sweet potato production across the region by identifying priority varieties, increasing farmer access to clean planting material and the introduction of new genetic materials based on industry preferred characteristics and in consultation with CARDI and Ministries of Agriculture research and extension divisions.

Objetivos Específicos:

Increased access to quality planting materials will be improved by enacting policies for the movement of clean sweet potato planting materials within CARICOM, provide virus-indexed seeds of 19 priority local varieties, and upgrading infrastructure to ensure wider availability for farmers, boosting productivity through the introduction of 20 MLS varieties. Conduct participatory trials will train farmers in good agricultural practices and help identify drought and saline-tolerant varieties from the 39 candidates.
Provide virus-indexed seeds of 19 priority local varieties, and upgrading infrastructure to ensure wider availability for farmers, boosting productivity through the introduction of 20 MLS varieties.
Conduct participatory trials will train farmers in good agricultural practices and help identify drought and saline-tolerant varieties from the 39 candidates.
Identifying sweet potato varieties suitable for flour, mash, and chip production and with non-marketable parts suitable for animal feed.
Local varieties of sweet potato made available with improved production management strategies in Jamaica, St. Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda.
Sweet potato value chains in Jamaica, St. Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda are enhanced to improve the production and consumption of adapted PGRFA.
Mechanisms strengthened to enhance the sharing of PGRFA sweet potato and genetic materials, data and knowledge in Jamaica, St. Lucia, and Antigua and Barbuda.

Resultados Esperados:

The Caribbean territories of Jamaica, St. Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda have improved their capacities in sweet potato production and management from the training of 25 technicians in the collection and propagation of sweet potato genetic material and soil samples.
Sweet potato growing countries in the Caribbean have improved capability to control sweet potato weevil due to training received by 25 agricultural specialists in Jamaica, Antigua and St. Lucia in the preparation of bioassays for the control of the sweet potato weevil.
45 Sector stakeholders across the three countries are made aware of the project's goals and objectives resulting from their participation in the project launch' and inception workshop.
Farmers in the Caribbean have access to clean planting material due to improvement in the infrastructure to multiply and "harden-off" sweet potato planting material in Jamaica, St. Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda.
The sweet potato value chain in Jamaica, St. Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda has access to additional varieties of sweet potato due to training received by 30 Agricultural technicians in the three countries on the ITPGRFA Multilateral System of sharing plant genetic resources.

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