PREFACE: The 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Cereals and Crops Production Systems in the Tropics (ICFST)

The 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Cereals and Crops Production Systems in the Tropics (ICFST) was held on 23-24 September 2021 in Harper Hotel Makassar, Indonesia. The Conference was organized by Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD)-Ministry of Agriculture of Indonesia, collaborated with International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of Indonesia. The theme of the conference is “Strengthening Agricultural Resources Management to Support Food Security and Industry 4.0” with the sub themes of Breeding and Biotechnology, Crop Production Systems, Pest and Disease Management, Post Harvest, Socio-Economy and Community Development. The conference was conducted in two days offline/on site and virtual scientific sessions. Due to the pandemic reason, offline/on site meeting was limited to a maximum of 100 participants and the remaining 900 participants joined via virtual zoom meeting. The conference facilitate the research community focusing in food crops and provide platform for scientists to meet and interact with each other to share their knowledge and their research results along with the obstacles and challenges they faced in their development, achievement as well as experiences through the presentation of papers and discussion. This international conference is also an event to establish cooperation in the development of food crops research in the future as well as enhancing the knowledge of environmental protection with the current agricultural technologies. We would like to convey our deepest gratitude to the Minister of Agriculture of Indonesia, Keynote Speakers: Dr Kevin Pixley (Director of Genetic Resources Program CIMMYT & the CGIAR Research Program), Prof. Keerti S. Rathore (Texas A&M University, USA), Dr. Juan Landivar Bowles (Texas Agrilive-USA), Prof Bunyamin Tar’an (University of Saskatchewan Canada), Dr. Yu Shin Nai (Chung Sing University-Taiwan), Dr. Naori Miyazawa (Nagoya University), sponsors, organizing committee and also to all participants. We also would like to express our deepest gratitude to the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD) conducted such conference. We are looking forward to the 3rd ICFST that will be held on September 2023 in Bali Island. We expect that these future ICFST conference will be as stimulating as this most recent one was, as indicated by the contributions presented in this proceedings volume. Makassar, 23-24 September 2021 IAARD Indonesia List of Committees, conference photograph are available in this Pdf.

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Variable Reaction of Tomato Lines to Bacterial Wilt Evaluated at Several Locations in Southeast Asia

HortScience ◽

10.21273/hortsci.31.1.143 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 143-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

Peter M. Hanson ◽

Jaw-Fen Wang ◽

Olivia Licardo ◽

Shook Ying Mah ◽

Glen L. Hartman ◽

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Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Bacterial Wilt ◽

Agricultural Research ◽

Field Trials ◽

Kuala Lumpur ◽

Inoculation Method ◽

Agricultural Research And Development ◽

The Tropics ◽

Disease Pressure ◽

Development Center

Bacterial wilt (BW), caused by Pseudomonas solanacearum E.F. Smith, is one of the most destructive disease of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) in the tropics. Twenty tomato lines/accessions previously identified as BW-resistant were evaluated for BW reaction in fields providing high disease pressure at Subang, Indonesia; Los Baños, Philippines; Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), Kuala Lumpur; Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC), Taiwan; and Taiwan Seed Improvement and Propagation Service (TSIPS). Entries also were tested in the greenhouse at the AVRDC with a P. solanacearum strain from Taiwan (Pss4) using a drench inoculation method. Objectives of the study were to identify stable sources of BW resistance for southeast Asian tomato breeding programs, and to determine the correlation between field and greenhouse reactions. Mean entry survival was 21.6% at Subang, 31.9% at Los Baños, 76.7% at the AVRDC, 93.6% at Malaysia, and 93.3% at TSIPS, indicating that most entries were resistant at MARDI and the Taiwan locations but susceptible at Subang and Los Baños. L285 (mean survival = 83.8%) and CRA 84-58-1 (mean survival = 79.4%) were the most resistant entries in the field trials. Mean survival (70.1%) of CRA 66-derived entries was significantly better than the mean of entries with resistance derived from UPCA 1169 or UPCA 1169 plus `Venus' or `Saturn'. Mean survival of AVRDC entries bred in the 1980s (59.4%) was significantly greater than mean survival of AVRDC lines bred in the 1970s (45.7%). The correlation between entry BW percent survival averaged over the five field trials and entry means from drench inoculation in the greenhouse was highly significant (r = 0.70), suggesting that the drench inoculation method is effective in selection for BW resistance.

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Soils and Sustainable Agriculture : Ecological Considerations

Tropical Soils ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195115987.003.0018 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Anthony S. R. Juo ◽

Kathrin Franzluebbers

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Sustainable Agriculture ◽

Crop Production ◽

Food Crops ◽

Food Crop ◽

Tropical Asia ◽

Food Crop Production ◽

High Base ◽

Food Needs ◽

The Tropics

Sustainable agriculture can be defined in many different ways. In industrial nations, sustainable agriculture means improving energy use efficiency, reducing environmental pollution, and increasing and sustaining profitability. For millions of small-holder farmers throughout the tropics, sustainable agriculture means providing basic food needs for the farming family, improving the farmer’s ability to replenish soil nutrients and control soil degradation, and optimizing crop yield per unit area of land. Soil utilization for agricultural production in the tropics during the past two centuries, to a large extent, has been influenced by the technological and economic changes in temperate regions. Research and development for agriculture during the colonial era were mainly focused on the needs of industrial nations, while the production of food crops for the indigenous inhabitants was largely left in the hands of the traditional slash-and-burn cultivators. Large and small cash crop plantations were developed on fertile, high-base-status allophanic and oxidic soils for coffee, cocoa, banana, and sugarcane production throughout the humid and subhumid tropics. Cotton was cultivated on smectitic soils and high-base-status kaolinitic soils in the subhumid and semiarid regions of Africa for the textile industries in temperate regions. In tropical America, cattle ranching, a production system introduced by European immigrants, still occupies most of the fertile flat land today, while food grains are usually cultivated on less fertile land or in shallow soils on steep slopes. In tropical Africa and Latin America, a wide range of food crops, such as maize and beans, potato, cowpea, sorghum, millet, cassava, and yam are mostly produced under the traditional slash-and-burn system of cultivation on less fertile kaolinitic soils. In tropical Asia, the indigenous intensive rice-based agriculture on wet smectitic soil has been practiced over many centuries and has been able to meet the basic food needs for the increasing population in the region. Generally, upland food crop production in the tropics has not kept pace with human population growth in the tropics during the past century. It was not until the 1950s and 1960s, following the independence of many nations in tropical Asia and Africa, that more attention was given to the research and development of food crop production.

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Private Agricultural R&D: Do the Poor Benefit?

Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization ◽

10.1515/jafio-2021-0007 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Jock R. Anderson ◽

Regina Birner ◽

Latha Najarajan ◽

Anwar Naseem ◽

Carl E. Pray

Keyword(s):

Poverty Reduction ◽

Agricultural Research ◽

Farming Systems ◽

Agricultural Technologies ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Public ◽

The Poor ◽

The World ◽

Agricultural Research And Development ◽

The Impact

Abstract Private agricultural research and development can foster the growth of agricultural productivity in the diverse farming systems of the developing world comparable to the public sector. We examine the extent to which technologies developed by private entities reach smallholder and resource-poor farmers, and the impact they have on poverty reduction. We critically review cases of successfully deployed improved agricultural technologies delivered by the private sector in both large and small developing countries for instructive lessons for policy makers around the world.

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Distributional Weights in Benefit-Cost Analysis: Examples from Rwanda and Uganda

Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization ◽

10.1515/jafio-2021-0003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Charles B. Moss ◽

Andrew Schmitz

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Cost Analysis ◽

Research And Development ◽

Agricultural Research ◽

Systematic Variation ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Benefit Cost Analysis ◽

Small Producer ◽

Agricultural Research And Development ◽

Benefit Cost

Abstract The question of how to allocate scarce agricultural research and development dollars is significant for developing countries. Historically, benefit/cost analysis has been the standard for comparing the relative benefits of alternative investments. We examine the potential of shifting the implicit equal weights approach to benefit/cost analysis, as well as how a systematic variation in welfare weights may affect different groups important to policy makers. For example, in the case of Rwandan coffee, a shift in the welfare weights that would favor small coffee producers in Rwanda over foreign consumers of Rwandan coffee would increase the support for investments in small producer coffee projects. Generally, changes in welfare weights alter the ordering for selecting investments across alternative projects.

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