Improving the Resilience of Crops to Climate Change through Mutation Breeding — Phase II (SAPI)

Project Type

Technical Cooperation Project

Project Code

RAS5098

Approved Date

Project Status

Active

Participating Countries

Fiji, Marshall Islands, Palau, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga

Objectives

To enhance food security through the use of new mutant varieties with increased productivity and better adaptation to biotic/abiotic stress, as well as the ability to plan and manage national mutation breeding programmes as an integral part of the national agricultural programme.