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Improving the Resilience of Crops to Climate Change through Mutation Breeding — Phase II (SAPI)
Project Type
Technical Cooperation Project
TC Region
Asia and the Pacific
Project Code
RAS5098Approved Date
1 January 2022
Status
New
Participating Countries
Fiji
Marshall Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Vanuatu
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.