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Snap beans may offer a very attractive alternative for small farmers in the tropics with good access to markets and willing to take some risks. Snap beans yield high return to land and provide employment opportunities. The small farmer producing snap beans for the market will be able to generate ...

El cultivo de habichuela puede constituir una alternativa atractiva para pequenos agricultores del tropico con buen acceso a mercados y dispuestos a correr riesgos. La habichuela produce un buen retorno a la tierra y proporciona muchas oportunidades de empleo. El pequeno agricultor que produce ha...

Results from a survey on snap bean production, marketing, and consumption, carried out among the participants to the workshop on Snap Bean Improvement, held at CIAT (Colombia), coming from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, are presented. Although the area planted to snap beans in th...

Se presentan los resultados de una encuesta sobre produccion, mercadeo y consumo de habichuela realizada entre los participantes en el Taller de Mejoramiento de Habichuela realizado en CIAT (Colombia), provenientes de Argentina, Brasil, Peru, Ecuador, y Colombia. Aunque las areas sembradas de hab...

Aspects of snap bean genetic improvement at CIAT are briefly analyzed. They include plant cycle and yield, strategies and methods for improvement, segregating population management, and description of characters to be evaluated. Data on the climbing and bush germplasm selected for the germplasm b...

Se analizan brevemente aspectos del mejoramiento genetico de la habichuela en CIAT como periodo vegetativo y rendimiento, estrategias y metodos de mejoramiento, manejo de poblaciones segregantes y descripcion de caracteres a evaluar. Se incluyen datos sobre el germoplasma voluble y arbustivo sele...

Damage caused to snap bean by rust, angular leaf spot, Ascochyta, and web blight, is briefly described. Results of the evaluations carried out by CIAT with the germplasm bank are also described along with the strategies for improvement developed in the search for cv. resistant to these diseases. ...

Se describen brevemente los danos causados a la habichuela por roya, mancha foliar angular, Ascochyta y mustia hilachosa. Se describen tambien los resultados de las evaluaciones realizadas por CIAT con el banco de germoplasma y las estrategias de mejoramiento desarrollados en busca de cv. resiste...

Snap bean research at CIAT is relatively new. It began in 1982 as a student thesis project to evaluate snap bean germplasm. Later, new introductions were received and sources of resistance to rust were identified. A modest crossing program was initiated and the first advanced lines entered the VE...