Changes in India’s seed regulations during the 1990s favored the growth of privately- as compared to publicly-funded sectors.
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Farmer willingness to pay for seed-related information
This study examines farmers’ preferences for seed of new rice varieties and their willingness to pay for seed-related information in villages of Nigeria and Benin.
The emergence of insect resistance in Bt-corn
The successful management of transgenic technology is likely to depend on the economic behavioral response of farmers to the regulated use of transgenic crops.
Local seed systems and village-level determinants of millet crop diversity in marginal environments of India
In the subsistence-oriented, semi-arid production systems of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India, the environment is marginal for crop growth and often there is no substitute for millet crops.
Comparing farm and village-level determinants of millet diversity in marginal environments of India
"The purpose of the research paper is to characterize biological diversity related to millets in the semi-arid regions of India at various spatial scales of analysis (e.g., farm household versus community levels) and place that evidence in a broad