Strengthening of agricultural research systems in the developing world is now considered an integral and important ... community and national agencies have focused on the development of National Agricultural Research Systems ( NARS ) .

percent for corn , 110 percent for wheat , and 179 percent for soybeans , levels that exceed most indexes of national investments in research at the commodity level , and even those estimated for the International Agriculture Research ...

For crops such as wheat , where international transferability of research is large , should developing countries ... to move upstream and to leave many of its applied and adaptive tasks to the national and regional organizations ?

Further analysis would be developed to estimate the returns to R & D with greater accuracy , taking into account the ... up to sensitize National Agricultural Research Systems in respective CARICOM countries about the ARPS process .