Umas Jaya Project: an example of successful cooperation between the private sector, a national institution, and an international organization
1992
Nugroho, J.H. | Soenarjo, R. | Kawano, K.
A successful three-way cooperation in cassava varietal development was established in 1982, in which a development-oriented private corporation (P.T. Umas Jaya Farm, located in Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia) offered an opportunity to expand field research to a resource-limited national cassava breeding program (CRIFC), while an international organization (CIAT) contributed the basic training of research personnel and additional germplasm. An improved industrial cultivar with distinctly higher yielding capacity and higher root starch content, Adira 4, was selected from the original CRIFC breeding stocks, evaluated multi-locationally, multiplied and released. Planting material of this cultivar was shipped in millions of stakes to large plantations in Sumatra and other islands, and was donated to many small farmers' cooperatives. The adoption rate of the new cultivar was exceptionally high for cassava and the additional economic benefits rendered by Adira 4 estimated to be more than five million US dollaras as of 1990. The contribution of UJF was significant in every step of the proceeding, without which the dissemination of Adira 4 would have taken much longer. The varietal improvement project continues with the breeding materials of more recent introduction from the CIAT-Colombia and Thai/CIAT breeding programs and many promising clones are coming out of the pipeline.
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