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Seed System Institutionalization for Pulses: A Must in the Philippines

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Title Seed System Institutionalization for Pulses: A Must in the Philippines
 
Creator Mula, M G
 
Subject Pigeonpea
 
Description The Green Revolution (GR) program has influenced seed system in the 70’s in vegetables and cereals but not in pulses. Seed is the fundamental life-blood of agriculture and the foundation of a successful farming for smallholder farmers in the dryland tropics. The farmer does make arrangements for many farm inputs but the seed is the primary input. Good quality seeds, which have genetic and physical purity; health standards; high germination and moisture percentage, can increase farmer’s production by about 20-30%. The procedures, through which a cultivar is bred, produced, certified, stored, marketed and used which includes all the channels through which farmers acquire genetic materials and in interaction with the commercial seed industry is known as seed system. In the Philippines, the flow of planting materials is more on the farming community as farmer seed exchanges and barter is preferred than acquiring seeds by cash. Most often the cultivars promoted are the registered seeds or good seeds, limiting the diversity in farmers’ fields. Farmers have traditionally relied on seed saving as their primary method of seed access. For pigeonpea, farmers cultivate local varieties and would trade seed amongst themselves or between villages when their seed became unviable after 2-4 years or more of successive cultivation. The trade between farmers first and then with neighboring villages helped to give new exposure to existing cultivars in the village.
 
Date 2014-12
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8791/1/Seed%20system%20institutionalization%20Dec%202014.pdf
Mula, M G (2014) Seed System Institutionalization for Pulses: A Must in the Philippines. In: 1st Philippine Pigeonpea Congress, 16 - 18 December, 2014, Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), Batac, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.