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Impact Assessment of the Village Seed Bank (VSB) program for chickpea, groundnut and pigeonpea in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar, focusing on the production, distribution, productivity and profitability of seed of improved cultivars, Research Report No 76

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Title Impact Assessment of the Village Seed Bank (VSB) program for chickpea, groundnut and pigeonpea in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar, focusing on the production, distribution, productivity and profitability of seed of improved cultivars, Research Report No 76
 
Creator Kumara Charyulu, D
Herridge, D
Yi, S S
Win, M M
Gaur, P M
 
Subject Crop Improvement
Chickpea
Pigeonpea
Groundnut
Drylands Agriculture
Food Legumes
Seeds/Seed Bank
Asia
Agricultural Economics
Legume Crops
Drylands
 
Description A major objective of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)-funded MyPulses project in Myanmar was the development of improved, high-yielding varieties of pigeonpea, groundnut and chickpea through breeding and selection and their widespread adoption by farmers of the Central Dry Zone (CDZ). The village seed bank (VSB) model was implemented by the Department of Agriculture (DoA) with backstopping from MyPulses partner International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in the 2015–16 season, then expanded during 2016–17 and 2017–18. During the three years of the program, a total of 1,343 VSB farmers from 495 villages associated with 104 townships across the CDZ obtained good quality, improved cultivar seeds directly from the DoA. This impact assessment survey was commissioned to examine the extent to which the VSB program was successful in facilitating the spread and adoption of new, improved legume cultivars as well as the productivity and economic benefits of those cultivars. Since it would have been impossible to get feedback about the program from all the VSB farmers, 182 of them from 41 villages were selected at random for the survey...
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2018
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10926/1/Mypulse-seed-system-Report-Final-2-11-2018.pdf
Kumara Charyulu, D and Herridge, D and Yi, S S and Win, M M and Gaur, P M (2018) Impact Assessment of the Village Seed Bank (VSB) program for chickpea, groundnut and pigeonpea in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar, focusing on the production, distribution, productivity and profitability of seed of improved cultivars, Research Report No 76. Project Report. ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad.