THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE HUNGARIAN SPICE PAPRIKA BREEDING PROGRAM

Historically, the field production methods for spice paprika in Hungary were based on local cultural practices and the breeding programme was based on local genetical materials.
The political and economical changes in the early 1990s in Hungary made possible and encouraged international scientific co-operation.
Beginning in 1996, the Research Station at Szeged participated in a 2-year long exchange programme in testing and studying paprika varieties, cultural methods and milling process technologies with researchers from the Extremadura Province in Spain.
Based on the success of that programme, we have started a new co-operative work with French scientists at the Research Station of INRA at Montfavel, France, on the genetic mapping of peppers and breeding of disease resistant red pepper cultivars with high quality.
In another co-operative programme, we are field testing our varieties under subtropical and tropical conditions in portugal, India and Togo.
We hope the international scientific co-operative programmes will contribute not only to a broadening of scientific knowledge of red peppers, but will also improve the lives of growers by providing high yielding disease resistant cultivars for them.

XXV International Horticultural Congress, Part 14: Horticultural Economics at Micro and Macro Level, International Trade and Marketing, International Cooperative Programs, Relations between Research, Development, Extension and Education

N. Somogyi

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2000.524.28