EVALUATION OF GENETICALLY IMPROVED FARMED TILAPIA
Regional Dissemination. As host for the development of GIFT, and having witnessed the superiority of GIFT in growth performance over the widely farmed Nile tilapia, the Philippines in 1993 was the first Asian country to adopt GIFT for use in a national tilapia breeding program, with dissemination and evaluation countrywide. During 1994-1997, GIFT were disseminated from the Philippines to four other national program partners in DEG1TA (Bangladesh, PRC, Thailand, and Viet Nam) and to the Fiji Islands and indonesia