Ravinder Reddy, Ch and Tonapi, V A and Nigam, S N and Rao, P P and Kumar, A A and Reddy, B V S and Gowda, C L L and Ratnakar, R (2012) Farmer Enabled Village Seed Banks as the Edifice of Integrated Seed System for Improved Access, Production and Supply of Groundnut Seed in India - A Case Study. In: National Seed Congress - 2012 - Quality Seed for Food Security Vol 1, 23-25 January, 2012, Chandigarh, India.
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Abstract
Seed is an important basic input for the enhancing the productivity of any crop species. The availability of quality seed of improved cultivar is the foundation for food production security. A goal perceived by many governments in the semi-arid tropics (SAT ) of Andhra Pradesh was to meet the groundnut seed requirements of small-scale farmers, but was never met successfully to meet their requirements. National agricultural research institutes and International research centers have worked together to develop new, stress tolerant varieties that are well adapted to smallholder farmers conditions, especially open pollinated varieties. Private seed sector is reluctant to produce open pollinated varieties and market the varieties of groundnut crop because, varieties do not fetch good price and it is not feasible for commercial sector. Even if they produce, it may not reach to small farmers in the remote rural areas. The baseline studies in the project area have identified key problems related to groundnut seed supply system. These' encompass timely availability of good quality seeds of high-yielding varieties, lack of storage facilities, problem of pod borer (storage pest), and farmers believe that using their own seed repeatedly year after year is detrimental and that repeated use of their own saved seed.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Divisions: | UNSPECIFIED |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Subjects: | Mandate crops > Groundnut |
| Depositing User: | Users 6 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2012 09:39 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2012 06:59 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/5384 |
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