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Seed policy in Mozambique

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Title Seed policy in Mozambique
 
Creator Rohrbach, D D
 
Subject Millets
Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum and Millet Improvement Program (SMIP) recently completed a review of seed policies in Mozambique in collaboration with the national Ministerio da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural and Michigan State University. This study estimates Mozambique is annually losing up to US $77 million in productivity gains from the failure of the national seed system to disseminate new varieties of grain and grain legume crops currently identified on the national registration list. This includes an annual loss of US$14 million resulting from the failure to disseminate improved varieties of sorghum and pearl millet. Substantially larger sums are being lost if one considers the complementary costs of continuing food insecurity and poverty.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2001
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1858/1/ISMN42_106-107_2001.pdf
Rohrbach, D D (2001) Seed policy in Mozambique. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter, 42. pp. 106-107.