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8. Seed Sector Development in Nepal: Opportunities and Options for Improvement

verfasst von : Devendra Gauchan

Erschienen in: Agricultural Transformation in Nepal

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

The chapter analyzes the key issues and constraints in the seed sector in Nepal, which represents one of the most important inputs for agricultural productivity growth. It analyzes the options and opportunities for improvement in the seed sector and identifies policy recommendations for this sector’s development. The chapter suggests that a clearly designed seed policy should be developed to create enabling environments for public–private partnership and provide coherence for a level playing field for the development of a dynamic, pluralistic and sustainable seed system in Nepal.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Food Demand System and Projections to 2035: Nepal
Nächstes Kapitel Use of Chemical Fertilizers in Nepal—Issues and Implications
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The formal seed system is characterized by an institutionally organized production and distribution of improved varieties using officially defined quality assurance mechanism. The informal seed system (often referred to as farmers’ seed system) is characterized by traditional system of saving, production, exchange and management of seeds by farmers and communities to meet their seed requirements for subsequent planting.
 
2
The seed replacement rate (SRR) however does not provide true picture of number of households using improved quality seeds and the age of the varieties used by the farmers.
 
3
The recently revised Seed Regulation (2013) has some relaxation for the registration of local farmers’ varieties (such as requirement of only one year data and no need of DUS test requirement), but farmers’ varieties adapted well and preferred by the farmers are not being adequately released and registered due to lack of well-defined implementation guidelines and lack of awareness of the provisions of relaxed registration process for local varieties.
 
4
Seed crop is a long duration and risky commodity as compared to crop grown for food production. Hence, it requires adequate support to mitigate the risks from adverse production environments (climatic, pest) and marketing risks (price and product sale), particularly for resource constrained farm households.
 
5
Community seed bank (CSB) is defined as a community-based effort to conserve and use both local and improved varieties for ensuring food security and improving the livelihoods of farmers (Sthapit 2013; Vernooy et al. 2015). These community seed banks are owned, controlled and governed by local community and are relatively inexpensive as they operate employing simple low-cost storage technologies at the local level.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Seed Sector Development in Nepal: Opportunities and Options for Improvement
verfasst von
Devendra Gauchan
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Verlag
Springer Singapore
Buch
Agricultural Transformation in Nepal

Print ISBN: 978-981-329-647-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-329-648-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9648-0_8