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User guide to the sustainable early generation seed business analysis tool (SEGSBAT)

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Title User guide to the sustainable early generation seed business analysis tool (SEGSBAT)
 
Creator Rajendran, S.
McEwan, M.
 
Subject seed
crops
 
Description The sustainable early generation seed business analysis tool (SEGSBAT) is a Microsoft Excel-based tool to help early generation seed producers to estimate their total production costs, customer seed requirement, and production calendar to determine a budget, and amount of source seed needed, among other functions. The step-by-step excel-platform requires some accounting skills, but it is moderately easy to use, and users can adjust it to fit their own situation. SEGSBAT allows an enterprise to set prices for early generation seed that are low enough to attract customers, but high enough to cover production costs and make the seed business financially sustainable. The tool generates two financial scenarios, one with and one without external funding, so that a company can create a revolving fund that will eventually replace donor support. The tool has been used mainly for sweetpotato, but is being adapted for cassava and other crops. In the future, non-economic functions can be added, e.g. to plan for environmental sustainability.
 
Date 2021-02
2021-02-24T00:09:50Z
2021-02-24T00:09:50Z
 
Type Manual
 
Identifier Rajendran, S. and McEwan, M.A. 2021. User guide to the sustainable early generation seed business analysis tool (SEGSBAT). Lima (Peru). CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB). RTB User Guide. No. 2021-8. Available online at: www.rtb.cgiar.org
978-92-9060-583-6
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/111533
https://doi.org/10.4160/9789290605836
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 15 p.
application/pdf