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Community Seed Production Sustainability in Rice-Wheat Farming

Community Seed Production Sustainability in Rice-Wheat Farming

Hardcover

Business GeneralAgricultureEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 4431554734
ISBN13: 9784431554738
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 20 2015
Pages: 177
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book analyzes the sustainability of community seed production under a rice-wheat farming system from microeconomic perspectives, considering how seed producers benefit from community seed production and how those benefits continue into the future. Seed producers' performance in resource management, governance and marketing strategies indicates current benefits, whereas soil conservation and risk-management practices provide the basis for future benefits. Community seed production is a local-level seed management system owned by farmers. This system provides the institutional mechanism to supply diversified seed demands of open-pollinated varieties of food crops in a cost-effective way in rural regions. Being able to address the concerns of food insecurity, poverty, climate stress and biodiversity loss in programs and policies of development agencies, community seed production is gaining popularity among the farmers and the policy makers in developing countries.

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