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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Mandioca e Fruticultura.
Data corrente: | 19/04/2004
Data da última atualização: | 19/04/2004
Autoria: | WESTBY, A; GRAFFHAN, A.
Título: | Cassava biotechnology and post-harvest: the interface and issues for the future.
Ano de publicação: | 1998
Fonte/Imprenta: | Revista Brasileira de Mandioca, Salvador, v. 17, p. 71, nov., 1998., Suplemento.
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | Abstract: This paper aims to set the scene with respect to the between post-harvest research and development and that wich can be classified as biotechnology. Of the aspects of biotechnology research, post harvest is the widest in scope, ranging from improvement to traditional fermentations, through waste management, adding value to by products of processing production of enzymes and specific chemicals and biochemicals, to the development of varieties with specific post-harvest characteristics surch as long shelf-lifer or low-cyanogenic potential. This paper examines some of the key issues in the use of "post-harvest" biotechnology to the benefic of those growing, processing or marketing cassava and its products. These issues include: balance between strategic and adaptive research impotance of a market orientated approach, importance of "needs assessmet", need for throud economic evaluations, need and delivery of starter cultures and the need for clear uptake pathaways for research results. Not all these issues are pplicable or all potencial application, but it is important to ensure that interventions, be they research or dissemination orientated, have the maximum potencial for success.
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