The Honduras Foundation for Agricultural Research (Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola or FHIA), (sometimes referred to as Honduras Foundation of Agricultural Research or Honduran Agricultural Research Foundation), is a not-for-profit research facility in San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras which seeks to develop new disease-resistant breeds of banana and plantain, and carries out research on cacao and other plant species.

Researchers at FHIA developed the FHIA-01 Goldfinger banana, which is resistant to a plant disease which threatens the widely cultivated Cavendish banana.[1][2][3][4] The FHIA-03 Sweetheart banana is already cultivated in Cuba.[5]

It continues the banana research program which the United Fruit Company originally established in 1958.

FHIA is also a participant in the Integrated Watershed Resources Management Program in Honduras financed by USAID.[6]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "A Banana Supreme: 'Goldfinger' is Born". The Palm Beach Post. May 16, 1993. p. 1E. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
  2. ↑ International Development Research Centre (Canada): Breeding a Better Banana Archived 2005-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Top banana. (disease-resistant hybrid banana)". Discover. July 1994. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
  4. ↑ FHIA-01 Goldfinger presentation by the FHIA
  5. ↑ FHIA-03 Sweetheart presentation by the FHIA
  6. ↑ "Press Release 2004-107. USAID Launches $23 Million Program in Honduras". USAID. December 1, 2004. Archived from the original on December 1, 2004. Retrieved 2008-06-09.

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