A) The following intervention areas were formulated based on the 40 intervention options from the previous day:
- Integrated cropping systems
- Seed systems
- Plant health management
- Delivery systems
- Genetic enhancement
B) Working groups were formed for each of the intervention areas. These groups took on the task of identifying three research options. Their proposed research options were then discussed, combined and reformulated into the 8 research options found below. These were reviewed in terms of the constraint or limiting factor they addressed, the adoptable innovation and the source of measureable impact:
- Integrated management of Fusarium wilts (diagnostic tools, epidemiology, clean seed, agronomic and cultural practices, soil suppressiveness)
- Management of BBTV and other viral diseases (diagnostic tools, epidemiology, clean seed, banana-free fallows, agronomic and cultural practices)
- Integrated management of bacterial wilts in smallholder systems (diagnostic tools, epidemiology, clean seed, cultural and agronomic practices, mat management)
- Risk assessment, diagnostic tools, predictive models and strategies for banana disease surveillance and quarantine and containment
- Market-driven intensified banana based cropping systems (including nutrients, water, quality planting material, pests and diseases such as weevils, nematodes and Sigatoka, cultivar selection, gender roles and resource control, etc)
- Breeding for higher yield, pest and disease resistance and consumer quality for smallholder banana, plantain and cooking banana cultivars
- Better use and availability of existing genetic diversity for biotic and abiotic stress and consumer quality through evaluation and clonal selection
- Extending utilization and reducing post-harvest losses
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