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Honduras Foundation for Agricultural Research

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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, as well as carrying on research on cacao and other plant species. [1]

11 relations: Banana, Cavendish banana, Cooking banana, Cortés Department, Goldfinger banana, Honduras, Plant breeding, San Pedro Sula, Theobroma cacao, United Fruit Company, United States Agency for International Development.

Banana

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Cavendish banana

A Cavendish banana is the fruit of a banana cultivar belonging to the Cavendish subgroup of the AAA cultivar group.

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Cooking banana

Cooking bananas are banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.

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Cortés Department

Cortés is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided.

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Goldfinger banana

The Goldfinger banana (FHIA-01) is a banana cultivar developed in Honduras.

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Honduras

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.

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Plant breeding

Plant breeding is the art and science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics.

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San Pedro Sula

San Pedro Sula is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras.

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Theobroma cacao

Theobroma cacao, also called the cacao tree and the cocoa tree, is a small (tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae, native to the deep tropical regions of the Americas.

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United Fruit Company

The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas), grown on Central and South American plantations, and sold in the United States and Europe.

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United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

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FHIA, Fundacion Hondureña de Investigación Agricola, Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola, Honduran Agricultural Research Foundation, Honduran Foundation for Agricultural Research, Honduran Foundation of Agricultural Research, Honduras Foundation of Agricultural Research.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras_Foundation_for_Agricultural_Research

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