Horticulture Development and Research Needs

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Horticulture Development and Research Needs

• Ahmad Dimyati
• Director General of Horticulture
• Ministry of Agriculture
• February 2007

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Outline

• Priority crops
• Horticulture development issues
• Priority researchable topics
• Mode of research activities and enhancing
  transfer of knowledge
• Support systems for innovative investment

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Current Priority Crops

• Citrus
• Banana
• Mangoes
• Mangosteen
• Durian
• Chili
• Potato
• Shallot
• Orchid
• Rhizomes

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Reasons in Current Priority Setting

• Total economic and social value
• Volume and value of total production and trade
• Total and geographical distribution of people
  involved
• Environmental
• National image

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Priority Crops Revisited

• Addition of selected crops from the following
  categories
• Region-specific exotic fruits
• High value vegetables with structured supply
  chains
• High value tropical ornamental plants and cut
  foliages
• All pharmaceutical and cosmetic crops

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Additional Reasons for Added List

• Future prospect
• Regional pride and image
• Improvability of the relevant supply chains
• Maintaining current foreign market

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Horticulture Development Issues

• Food security and safety
• Competitiveness
• Better income and prosperity for the growers

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More Development Issues

• Growing modern supply chains (MSCs)
• Increasing import for supplying MSCs
• Preparedness of growers, innovation bases and
  institutional set-up for access to MSCs

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Development Program

• Improvement of productivity and quality through
  implementation of GAP
• Improvement of existing supply chains
• Establishing new innovative SCs
• Empowering growers and marginalized traders
• Strengthening institutions
• Integrated faciltation of hort. investment

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Priority Researchable Areas (1)

• Improvement of productivity and quality through
  implementation of GAP
• Improvement of existing supply chains
• Establishing new innovative SCs

• Location specific fertilization other cultural
  practices
• Characteristics and implications of variable
  charged tropical soils
• MRL
• Social and institutional aspects of
  growers-traders linkages
• Options of forms of products for trade
• Packaging material
• Transportation modes
• Export related technical issues

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Commonwealth of Independent States
Opportunity of Market Expansion
China
Middle East
South Africa
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Priority Researchable Areas (2)

• Empowering growers and marginalized traders
• Strengthening institutions

• Social and institutional aspects of
  growers-traders linkages
• Relearning and revitalizing traditional social
  capital
• Economic and legal aspects of linkages

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Mode of Research Activities

• Comprehensive, synchronized, coordinated research
  programs
• Strengthening national and international
  collaboration among research institutions
• Strengthening public-private linkages
• Strengthening research-industry connectivity and
  research-extension linkages

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Supporting System for Innovative Investment

• FATIH Fasilitasi Terpadu Investasi Hortikultura
• INFAITH Integrated Facilitation for Investment
  in Horticulture
• Network of public and private facilitators to
  enhance (innovative) investment in horticulture
  by synchronized and coordinated efforts for
  seizing the opportunities and alleviating the
  obstacles

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STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT
POTENTIALS
CHALLENGES
OPPORTUNITIES
SCM
GAP
PRODUCTION
DISTRIBUTION
CONSUMPTION

POLICY
STRATEGY
PROGRAM
INTEGRATED FACILITATION OF INVESTMENT IN
HORTICULTURE
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Thank you