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What do you do when farmers do not want the improved seed?
An improved seed variety can do better in trials and still be taken up by only a small share of farmers. When that happens, what question has the programme failed to ask?
Farming, food, land, and the people who work it.
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An improved seed variety can do better in trials and still be taken up by only a small share of farmers. When that happens, what question has the programme failed to ask?
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