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This book discusses about the sustainability of community seed production in rice-wheat system. Community seed production is a local level seed management system owned and managed by farmers. This system provides diversified crop varietal choice in rural areas in open-pollinated crop varieties of food crops in a cost effective way. Due to this reason, this system is gaining popularity to address the concerns of food insecurity, poverty, climate stress, and biodiversity loss in programs and policies of development agencies. This book attempts to analyze sustainability of this system under rice-wheat system from microeconomic perspective, considering how seed producers realize the benefit and how that benefit continues in the future. Seed producers performance in resource management and marketing strategies cover their current benefit. Similarly, soil conservation and risk aversion practices provide basis for their future benefits. This book also measures organizational governance and makes linkage with household level benefits. This provides a basis for formulating policies for strengthening this system in developing countries.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Industry & industrial studies Primary industries

• Full title: Community Seed Production Sustainability in Rice-Wheat Farming
• Author: Narayan Prasad Khanal, Keshav Lall Maharjan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 177
• EAN: 9784431554738
• ISBN: 4431554734
• ID: 09145898
• Publisher: Springer Verlag, Japan
• Weight: 4624 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 243 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. May 2015

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