Strategies for strengthening and scaling up community-based seed production
Maize is the primary source of calories in the diet of many resource-poor farm families in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). International agricultural research centers, in collaboration with national agricultural research systems, continue to develop and disseminate technologies for adoption by smallholder farmers. These technologies are aimed at addressing the multiple constraints that smallholder farmers face. One of these new technologies is stress tolerant, more nutritious open-pollinated maize varieties (OPVs) and hybrids. Although many of these new varieties have been released by the national systems, smallholder farmers continue to encounter difficulties in accessing maize seed. To overcome this problem some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have initiated community-based seed production schemes to assist farmers with selecting, multiplying and saving seed of the improved OPVs to meet their own needs, and sometimes those of neighbouring communities. Community-based seed production schemes are most commonly initiated where the formal seed system is unreliable and the seed supply infrastructure is poor. However, NGOs and extension workers training farmers on seed production require sound knowledge of the differences between maize OPVs and hybrids, variety characteristics, strategies for community based seed production, and scaling up methodologies. It is to fill this need that this publication was compiled. CIMMYT hopes that this publication will become a useful resource for development workers involved in community-based seed production schemes and related facets of smallholder agriculture in the region.
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dig-cimmyt-10883-7912021-03-31T14:27:00Z Strategies for strengthening and scaling up community-based seed production Setimela, P.S. Kosina, P. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PLANT BREEDING MODELS TRAINING PROGRAMMES HYBRIDS MAIZE SEED PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PLANT BREEDING MODELS TRAINING PROGRAMMES HYBRIDS MAIZE SEED PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Maize is the primary source of calories in the diet of many resource-poor farm families in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). International agricultural research centers, in collaboration with national agricultural research systems, continue to develop and disseminate technologies for adoption by smallholder farmers. These technologies are aimed at addressing the multiple constraints that smallholder farmers face. One of these new technologies is stress tolerant, more nutritious open-pollinated maize varieties (OPVs) and hybrids. Although many of these new varieties have been released by the national systems, smallholder farmers continue to encounter difficulties in accessing maize seed. To overcome this problem some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have initiated community-based seed production schemes to assist farmers with selecting, multiplying and saving seed of the improved OPVs to meet their own needs, and sometimes those of neighbouring communities. Community-based seed production schemes are most commonly initiated where the formal seed system is unreliable and the seed supply infrastructure is poor. However, NGOs and extension workers training farmers on seed production require sound knowledge of the differences between maize OPVs and hybrids, variety characteristics, strategies for community based seed production, and scaling up methodologies. It is to fill this need that this publication was compiled. CIMMYT hopes that this publication will become a useful resource for development workers involved in community-based seed production schemes and related facets of smallholder agriculture in the region. 25 pages 2012-01-06T04:37:27Z 2012-01-06T04:37:27Z 2006 Book 970-648-143-5 http://hdl.handle.net/10883/791 English CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. Open Access PDF Mexico CIMMYT |
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Maize is the primary source of calories in the diet of many resource-poor farm families in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). International agricultural research centers, in collaboration with national agricultural research systems, continue to develop and disseminate technologies for adoption by smallholder farmers. These technologies are aimed at addressing the multiple constraints that smallholder farmers face. One of these new technologies is stress tolerant, more nutritious open-pollinated maize varieties (OPVs) and hybrids. Although many of these new varieties have been released by the national systems, smallholder farmers continue to encounter difficulties in accessing maize seed. To overcome this problem some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have initiated community-based seed production schemes to assist farmers with selecting, multiplying and saving seed of the improved OPVs to meet their own needs, and sometimes those of neighbouring communities. Community-based seed production schemes are most commonly initiated where the formal seed system is unreliable and the seed supply infrastructure is poor. However, NGOs and extension workers training farmers on seed production require sound knowledge of the differences between maize OPVs and hybrids, variety characteristics, strategies for community based seed production, and scaling up methodologies. It is to fill this need that this publication was compiled. CIMMYT hopes that this publication will become a useful resource for development workers involved in community-based seed production schemes and related facets of smallholder agriculture in the region. |
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