IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/iim/iimawp/wp01023.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Seed Replacement Practices

Author

Listed:
  • Gurdev Singh
  • Asokan S R

Abstract

One important reason for low demand for quality seeds is the reportedly low seed replacement rate especially in case of non-hybrids. To investigate the reasons for such practices followed by the farmers is the main objective of this pilot study conducted in Faridkot district of Punjab. The study revealed that contrary to the belief a majority of farmers replace seed of all major crops within four years. In fact, the replacement was reported quicker than the perceived recommended replacement schedule in almost all crops. Even the perceived replacement schedule was much shorter than four years. In some crops majority of them replaced seed every year. However, the seed used by the farmers was rarely of standard quality (certified/labelled). Non-availability of quality seed of crops like cotton was the main reason for use of substandard seed. This may be the factor behind low expected yield as the reason for replacement which often occurs quicker than expected.

Suggested Citation

  • Gurdev Singh & Asokan S R, 1991. "Seed Replacement Practices," IIMA Working Papers WP1991-07-01_01023, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:iim:iimawp:wp01023
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:iim:iimawp:wp01023. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/eciimin.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.