Kumara Charyulu, D and Herridge, D and Yi, S S and Win, M M and Gaur, P M (2018) Impact Assessment of the Village Seed Bank (VSB) program for chickpea, groundnut and pigeonpea in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar, focusing on the production, distribution, productivity and profitability of seed of improved cultivars, Research Report No 76. Project Report. ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad.
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Research Program : Innovation Systems for the Drylands (ISD)
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We are immensely thankful to the ACIAR for providing the financial support to undertake this study under the MyPulses project. Our special thanks to Dr Robert Edis, Research Program Manager, Soil and Land Management, ACIAR, for the encouragement and initial ideas in undertaking this study. Our sincere thanks to Dr Thant L Win Oo, Director, Department of Agricultural Research (DAR) and Dr U Myint Oo, Director, Department of Agriculture (DoA) for providing the logistical support and guidance in the smooth conduct of this study. We are also thankful to all the township officials of Department of Agriculture (DoA) for providing all manner of assistance – from initial planning of this study until completion. We sincerely recognize the help rendered by DoA officials Mr Kyaw Zin Win, Ms Malar Kyaw Myint and Ms Nyo Nyo in survey planning, data collection, execution of field surveys and giving critical inputs in developing this report. Last, but not the least, we owe much gratitude to each of the 182 respondent village seed bank farmers in the CDZ region for their cooperation during the survey, their warm hospitality, and for sharing their valuable time with us that enabled us to deepen our understanding about the impact of village seed banks. Finally, the opinions and conclusions expressed in this report are those of the authors and not necessarily those of ICRISAT or the DAR/DoA.
Abstract
A major objective of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)-funded MyPulses project in Myanmar was the development of improved, high-yielding varieties of pigeonpea, groundnut and chickpea through breeding and selection and their widespread adoption by farmers of the Central Dry Zone (CDZ). The village seed bank (VSB) model was implemented by the Department of Agriculture (DoA) with backstopping from MyPulses partner International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in the 2015–16 season, then expanded during 2016–17 and 2017–18. During the three years of the program, a total of 1,343 VSB farmers from 495 villages associated with 104 townships across the CDZ obtained good quality, improved cultivar seeds directly from the DoA. This impact assessment survey was commissioned to examine the extent to which the VSB program was successful in facilitating the spread and adoption of new, improved legume cultivars as well as the productivity and economic benefits of those cultivars. Since it would have been impossible to get feedback about the program from all the VSB farmers, 182 of them from 41 villages were selected at random for the survey...
| Item Type: | Monograph (Project Report) |
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| Divisions: | Research Program : Asia Research Program : Innovation Systems for the Drylands (ISD) |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Impact Assessment, Village Seed Bank, chickpea, groundnut, pigeonpea, Myanmar, improved cultivars, seeds, crop improvement, seed banks, Burma |
| Subjects: | Others > Crop Improvement Mandate crops > Chickpea Mandate crops > Pigeonpea Mandate crops > Groundnut Others > Drylands Agriculture Others > Food Legumes Others > Seeds/Seed Bank Others > Asia Others > Agricultural Economics Others > Legume Crops Others > Drylands |
| Depositing User: | Mr Ramesh K |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2018 06:23 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2018 06:35 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/10926 |
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