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Seed Dealer Survey 2022 in Bihar, India

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Title Seed Dealer Survey 2022 in Bihar, India
 
Identifier https://hdl.handle.net/11529/10548854
 
Creator Krishna, Vijesh
 
Publisher CIMMYT Research Data & Software Repository Network
 
Description In the eastern Indian state of Bihar, most wheat farmers access seeds from the private dealers. In spite of the high seed replacement rate (>85%), the farmers still use the age-old varieties (mean age >20 years). Since most farmers consider seed dealers as a valuable source of information, a study was designed to examine the willingness of private dealers to act as knowledge dissemination agents – by participating in workshops, demonstration trails, web-based training, etc. – and on different ways to incentivize them to ensure delivery of accurate information and quality seeds of recent varieties with desired traits.A trader survey was conducted in December 2021.

The survey covered 40 villages, where household surveys are already completed as part of the AGG project in 2021. As part of another CIMMYT project (Climate Resilient Agriculture for Bihar, CRA), detailed village surveys with key informants were already conducted in the same villages. A telephone interview with key informants from these villages revealed that farmers get wheat seeds from about 210 private dealers (5-6 dealers per village). These dealers formed the respondents of the dealer survey. The interviews were conducted in December 2021, using a semi-structured questionnaire.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Business and Management
Social Sciences
Private dealer
Private trade
Bihar
Varietal turnover
Climate resilience
 
Language English
 
Date 2022-01-20
 
Contributor Krishna, Vijesh
Kuriyedath, Drisya
Kala-Satheesh, Hari Krishnan
Rahman, Nihal EP
Jaleel, Jasna
 
Relation AGG Household Survey, 2021
CRA Village Survey, 2021
 
Type Survey data