Honduras Foundation for Agricultural Research
The Honduras Foundation for Agricultural Research,, 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.
Researchers at FHIA developed the FHIA-01 Goldfinger banana, which is resistant to a plant disease which threatens the widely cultivated Cavendish banana. The FHIA-03 Sweetheart banana is already cultivated in Cuba.
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.Footnotes
