Shikhar Shrestha

Nepalese seed system comprises two seed system first one informal seed system and also called the farmers seed system. It includes the majority share of the Nepalese seed system and another is a formal seed system. The contribution of the formal seed system to the total sector is very low. There is often a mismatch between the crop variety in demand by the farmers and seed variety in offer by the formal sector.    In informal seed system seeds are produced and preserved by the farmers themselves for the subsequent planting. The seeds are bartered within the farmers as the informal network exists in this system for seed flow. This is also called the social seed system and acknowledged as a means for the maintenance of local crop diversity (Shrestha, 2012). The formal seed system in Nepal is characterized by the production, processing and distribution of registered varieties in demand with the precise quality control mechanism. Transaction wise formal seed system at ...