VEGETABLE SEED VILLAGE: A KEY TO WOMEN FARMER EMPOWERMENT

A. SAHU¹*, M. USHA RANI², S.K. SRIVASTAVA^3
1Department of Horticulture, ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, 751003, India
²Farm Section, ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, 751003, India
³Director, ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, 751003, India
* Corresponding Author : sahuankita29@gmail.com

Received : 15-09-2018     Accepted : 26-09-2018     Published : 30-09-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 18       Pages : 7138 - 7140
Int J Agr Sci 10.18 (2018):7138-7140

Keywords : Seed village, Women farmers, Vegetable seeds, Production
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author thankful to ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, 751003, India
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

The Seed one of the critical input has also become an expensive input due to involvement of several multinational companies in its production and distribution system. This in return have devastated the farming community who are completely dependent on private companies on timely supply of vegetable seeds for successful farming. Realising the high investment in procurement of vegetable seeds, the concept of vegetable seed village can be popularised among the farming community with special focus on landless women farmers, who can be successfully involved in the local seed network for strengthening the supply of ample quantity of quality vegetable seeds at grass root level. Such a seed village concept in mass production of vegetable seeds at their homestead areas can proof effective in ensuring livelihood security to these vulnerable groups. This can further be strengthened with suitable policy frameworks and rural infrastructure for enabling the women groups to emerge as successful entrepreneurs in fields of vegetable seed production.

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