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SEED OF HOPE
Indian seed market has grown at 12% annual rate where the
annual growth rate of global seed market is 5% (Verma, 2008)
80
BASED ON BASED ON
PRODUCE PRODUCER
70 60
60
50
40
30
20 27
10
Gadwal, 2003;
Poonia, 2013
PRIVATE SECTOR
2.5 times
• SRR are higher for vegetable crops when
compared to cereals-paddy-25.1%, wheat-18%
(Nandi et al. 2013)
Yields of quality seeds are higher than farmer own saved seeds
USA, 1.0
Source of Data: APEDA, 2013
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SEED EXPORT IN QUANTITY (MT)
20000
18000 17174
APEDA, 2013
16000 15206
14000
12302
12000 11619
10659 10158
10000
8104 8533 8882
8000 7518
6727
6178
6000 5170
4000
2000
0
Income generation
1. Highly remunerative business
2. Hybrids fetch more price than OPVs
as the cost of hybrid seed production
is more due to the involvement of
more labour
3. Hybrid seed production of sweet
pepper is highly remunerative
generating an income of 136000 INR
per 0.75 acre followed by hot pepper
generating an income of 41500 INR per
0.25 acre (Sharma, 2011).
Cost and returns per hectare from hybrid seed
production of tomato and okra
Particular
Tomato Okra
Value
Quantity Value (INR) Quantity
(INR)
Total cost
49775 38548
Yield
0.493 q 138118 5.66 q 77995
Benefit:
Cost 2.77:1 2.02:1
Net income
88343 39447
Cucurbits 28.08%
Okra 15.46%
(Hazra et al. 2005)
Average number of man-days per acre
required for hybrid seed production of
various vegetables
Emasculat
ion and 5.48 21.3 11.4 275.5 313.7 6.67 11.6 1.4 257.2 276.9
Crossing
Harvestin,
Cleaning
3.56 5.8 37.2 73.9 120.5 7.61 10.8 2.4 85.9 106.8
and
Packing
Total
54.43 37.8 104.2 416.9 613.3 72.2 43.8 21.9 412.2 550.2
25000
20000 18491
14215 14504
15000 12151 11997
10095 9294
10000
6750 6454 6598
5357
5000
0
Negative impact
• Poor farmers can’t afford high cost veg. seeds
No reproduction Purchasing seed
of branded seeds every year
by farmers
PPV & FRA,
2001 No awareness
Protection for among farmers
landraces and
farmer varieties
Stealing