| Information Sheet of Rice Related Project/Program in CARD First Group Countries | |||||||||||
| 1. Country | Tanzania | ||||||||||
| 2. Title (Full name) | Improving Rice Varieties through Mutation Breeding and Biotechnology in Zanzibar | ||||||||||
| 3. Project Location | Zanzibar | ||||||||||
| 4. Type of project | 3 | ||||||||||
| 1. Grant, 2. Loan, 3. Technical Coop./Assistance, 4. National budget, 5. Private sector | |||||||||||
| 5. Field of support | 2 | ||||||||||
| 1. Policy, 2. R & D, 3. Extension & Training, 4. Production, 5. Marketing 6. Post-harvest, 7. Irrigation, 8. Credit, 9. Seed, 10. Other ( specify below ) |
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| 6. Fund sources (Funding agency) |
IAEA/FAO | ||||||||||
| 7. Budget | USD 280,000 | ||||||||||
| 8. Project duration | Start: | 2009 | |||||||||
| (dd/mm/yy) | End: | 2011 (3 years) | |||||||||
| 9. Goal and objectives | Goal: | ||||||||||
| Obj.: | Technical cooperation project to improve researchers' capacity and physical facilities for development of rice yellow motile virus (RYMV) and blast disease resistant varieties of rice. | ||||||||||
| 10. Target beneficiaries | Direct: | Researchers | |||||||||
| Sec.: | Small-scale farmers | ||||||||||
| 11. Project component (activities) | 1. | Fellowship | |||||||||
| 2. | Breeding and screening work | ||||||||||
| 12. Expected results (outputs) | 1. | Screening facility of rice plants is constructed. | |||||||||
| 2. | Improved rice varieties resistant to RYMV and blast disease are bred. | ||||||||||
| 13. Inputs | 1. | Fund | |||||||||
| 2. | Researchers and staff | ||||||||||
| 3. | Screening facility of rice plants | ||||||||||
| 14. Implementing agency | Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Environment (Zanzibar) | ||||||||||
| 15. Status of the project | 3 | 1?Pipeline, 2. Approved, 3. On-going, 4. Completed | |||||||||
| 16. Issues/problems | Shortage of human capacity, breeders, pathologists and agronomists. Shortage of transport facilities and laboratory facilities. | ||||||||||
