TY  - CHAP
AV  - restricted
N2  - The main purpose of alternative seed delivery system is to address the seed availability problems of smallholder farmers. Most of the community-based seed production models /schemes are initiated because farmers are concerned about the non-availability of quality seed at planting time. Many farmers don't have access to improved varieties; and wouldn't be able to afford them even if they were. So introduction of alternative seed systems models must impact farmers' access to seeds of improved varieties at affordable cost. The quality of seed produced by communitybased system or farmer seed systems is guaranteed only by its seller or village seed committee, because they are not processed and are uncertified seed. The seed so produced is low priced, and available at farmers' doorsteps at the right time, and provides access to all farmer groups in the village...
UR  - http://oar.icrisat.org/8744/
SP  - 595
Y1  - 2015///
T2  - Millets : Ensuring Climate Resilience and  Nutritional Security
EP  - 606
PB  - Daya Publishing House
TI  - Sustaining Viability of Informal Millet Seed Systems
ID  - icrisat8744
A1  - Ravinder Reddy, C H
A1  - Tonapi, V A
KW  - Seed Systems; Millets; Seed Delivery System; Seedbanks
CY  - New Delhi
SN  - 9789351246442
ER  -