DOST PCAARRD 2023 CALL FOR PROPOSALS (CY 2025 funding)

Source: DOST PCAARRD Facebook page

Submission period: March 1-31, 2023

Opening: March 1, 2023 at 8AM

Closing: March 31, 2023 at 5PM

Priority areas

Mango

• Development of a system/model for proper scheduling mango production
• Mitigate losses brought about by unfavorable/adverse weather conditions and result in higher productivity and quality of mango

Coffee

• Surveillance and management of coffee pests and diseases using smart tools and techniques
• Climate-smart coffee production and processing

Sugarcane

• Field verification and adaptability trials of improved crop varieties
• Optimization of nutrient management strategies
• Optimization of water management strategies
• Mechanization of sugarcane production operations

Management of Economically Important Emerging Pests

• Development/ optimization of S&T-based management strategies to reduce the significant losses caused by emerging insect pests and diseases in priority crops

Smart water management for high value crops

• Smart water management for high value crops

Animal Feed Resources Enhancement

• Smart water management for high value crops
• Evaluation of the nutritive value of forage crops and crop by-products to livestock and poultry
• Forage and crop by-product processing and preservation technology development
• Enhancement of nutritive value of feed materials thru fermentation and other feed treatment processes
• Identification and production of microbial starter cultures for forage and crop by-products fermentation

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