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AMDT, together with partners, has developed Intervention Strategy (2016 – 2020) aimed at stimulating systemic changes in a number of areas in the value chain, as outlined below:
Area 1
Stimulating the market for improved sunflower seed varieties; the aim of this intervention is to stimulate the private sector to invest in supplying improved seed varieties, while also encouraging the public sector through responsible research institutes to invest in developing the breeding capacity for new Hybrid seed varieties in the longer term. The target is to bring into the market at least 4 – 6 new hybrid varieties by 2020. Currently, the majority of farmers use the so-called open-pollinated (OPV) seed varieties (which have been around for a long time, thereby losing their original production potential/characteristics.
Two specific interventions have been proposed:
- Increasing availability of and access to improved seed varieties by smallholder farmers, especially those in highly productive areas.
- Re-establishing/upgrading the breeding capacity of the sunflower research institutes so as to develop the country’s capacity for breeding and generation of improved seed varieties in future.
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