Sticky seeds: Why old seeds continue to dominate the rice-wheat agriculture in Eastern India
Preliminary findings of a joint ICAR-IFPRI survey covering more than 2,000 farmers from 40 districts of Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Odisha show that the adoption of improved varieties of rice and wheat seeds is slow in the region. The average age of wheat varieties grown in Bihar and eastern Ut...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia
2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143192 |
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