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Developing a community based seed system

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Title Developing a community based seed system
 
Creator Ravinder Reddy, Ch
Tonapi, Y
Bezkorowajnyj, P G
Aluri, A
Ratnakar, R
Wani, S P
 
Subject Oil seeds
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description A little-Known. under-appreciaieU and pressing concern in die global supply, of ci»y seed isa dearth
of systems providing seed for crops of import mainly 10 poor households in developing countries. Seed for such crops cannot be supplied economically by the formal and centralized seed set int. The resulting bottleneck in seed supply primarily affects self-pollinating food-feed crops, such as Sorghum, Pearl Millet, groundnut, chickpea, Pigconpca. Hack gram and green gram etc.. which arc served largely, if largely ineffectively by local seed provision systems The lack of scientific knowledge ;if seed production, quality control and innovative interventions arc the main handicaps of farmers'
seed svstems, which have resulted in inferior quality seed and jmoi outputs This paper discusses die preliminary process for developing farmers seed system or informal seed system at village level io develop smallholders village seed bank for seed security and interventions most likely to improve seed supply by, among and to the poor.The mechanisms of creating and training seed growers' associations to promote seed production and distribution at village level are also detailed here.
 
Publisher University of Agricultural Sciences
 
Date 2008
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5301/1/Devpt%20of%20Community%20based%20seed%20system.pdf
Ravinder Reddy, Ch and Tonapi, Y and Bezkorowajnyj, P G and Aluri, A and Ratnakar, R and Wani, S P (2008) Developing a community based seed system. In: National Seed congress - 2008, 22-23 Dec 2008 , Bangalore, India.