The Honduras Foundation for Agricultural Research (Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola or FHIA), (sometimes referred to as Honduras Foundation of Agricultural Research or Honduran Agricultural Research Foundation), is a not-for-profit research facility in San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras which seeks to develop new disease-resistant breeds of banana and plantain, and carries out research on cacao and other plant species.
Researchers at FHIA developed the FHIA-01 Goldfinger banana, which is resistant to a plant disease which threatens the widely cultivated Cavendish banana.[1][2][3][4] The FHIA-03 Sweetheart banana is already cultivated in Cuba.[5]
It continues the banana research program which the United Fruit Company originally established in 1958.
FHIA is also a participant in the Integrated Watershed Resources Management Program in Honduras financed by USAID.[6]
Footnotes
edit- ^ "A Banana Supreme: 'Goldfinger' is Born". The Palm Beach Post. May 16, 1993. p. 1E. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ International Development Research Centre (Canada): Breeding a Better Banana Archived 2005-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Top banana. (disease-resistant hybrid banana)". Discover. July 1994. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ FHIA-01 Goldfinger presentation[permanent dead link] by the FHIA
- ^ FHIA-03 Sweetheart presentation[permanent dead link] by the FHIA
- ^ "Press Release 2004-107. USAID Launches $23 Million Program in Honduras". USAID. December 1, 2004. Archived from the original on December 1, 2004. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
References
edit- "IDIAF reconoce a Franklin Rosales, investigador internacional en plátanos y bananos". El Nuevo Diario. 2008-05-21. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- Briceño, Germán (June 6, 2008). "Un proyecto regional y buenos precios impulsan el interés por expandir el cultivo. Volver al cacao, la bebida de los dioses mayas". La Prensa. Archived from the original on 2008-07-03. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
External links
edit- Fundacion Hondureña de Investigación Agricola (in Spanish)
- Honduras Foundation for Agricultural Research Archived 2008-06-02 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
- Musapedia, page on FHIA banana program, with links to FHIA cultivar pages
- FHIA-01, a description of FHIA-01 on Musapedia
- FHIA-17, a description of FHIA-17 on Musapedia
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