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A Brief Overview of Smallholder Farmers’ Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11603/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_1
doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_1
 
Title A Brief Overview of Smallholder Farmers’ Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties
 
Creator Akpo, E
Ojiewo, C O
Omoigui, L O
Rubyogo, J C
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Smallholder Farmers
Genetics and Genomics
Legume Crops
Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Description For decades, the vast majority of smallholder farmers in developing countries,
mainly sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and to some extent South Asia (SA), heavily rely
on non-improved and auto-saved variety seed, accounting for about 80% of their
material used for planting. Though the seed use figures by farmers vary from one
region to another, with West Africa showing the lowest rate of improved seed use
(below 20%) and South Asia with much higher rate (up to 70%), the overall situation
looks less encouraging. At the same time, substantial breakthroughs have been
made by breeding programs, and many more are still in the pipeline. Some of the
traits of recently developed varieties have targeted the consumers’ demands and
farmers’ preferences.
 
Publisher Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
 
Date 2020
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11603/1/10.1007_978-981-15-0845-5_1.pdf
Akpo, E and Ojiewo, C O and Omoigui, L O and Rubyogo, J C and Varshney, R K (2020) A Brief Overview of Smallholder Farmers’ Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties. In: Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore, pp. 1-2. ISBN 978-981-15-0844-8