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Title
Biotechnology in Mauritius: current status and constraints |
Full text
http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca/archive/00002047/01/ej04012.pdf; http://hdl.handle.net/1807/3138 |
Date
2004 |
Author(s)
Puchooa, Daneshwar |
Abstract
Agriculture today faces the challenge of sustainable productivity and improved food security on a shrinking area of land under cultivation. Until recently, biotechnology has been viewed as an expensive technology affordable only by rich industrial countries. However, it is now increasingly considered as an essential tool for developing countries to tackle the numerous problems of underdevelopment. Unfortunately, to date, Mauritius, like many other countries in Africa, lags far behind in development, use and commercialisation of biotechnology. This paper outlines the current status of biotechnology in Mauritius, some important constraints faced, as well as how policy makers are planning to make Mauritius "assume the role of a service provider and know-how disseminator in the field of biotechnology by acting as a regional hub and a regional nursery". |
Subject(s)
Biotechnology; biotechnology, Mauritius, Mauritius Agricultural Biotechnology Institute. ej04012; Biotechnology |
Language
en_US |
Publisher
Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile |
Type of publication
Journal (Paginated) |
Format
120728 bytes; application/pdf |
Identifier
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology 7(2) |
Repository
Toronto - University of Toronto
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