Exploiting plants for marginal tropical areas: The research challenge (Phil Harris)

With an increasing world population and only limited new land available for agriculture and forestry, challenges for the next millennium are both to increase productivity and to make better use of marginal land, especially in the tropics. 

Successful exploitation of plants for marginal areas requires a multidisciplinary approach and integration of the conservation, collection, screening, selection, breeding, propagation, field testing and distribution of potential crops. 

This Lecture illustrated how different parts of this research and development jigsaw can be assembled and fitted together.

Lecture date: 18 February 1998

 Phil Harris lecture