Author: idsmc

Three key strategy and policy level interventions to sustain the Bt technology in Bangladesh and gear up for increasing demand from the farmers include (a) Making Bt technology durable – planting refuges and multiple proteins; (b) Event based approval – To reduce time for new variety approvals and (c) Private sector participation – To accelerate scale of adoption with geography relevant varieties.

Subhash Adhikari is one of 70 smallholder wheat farmers in the Chitwan district of Nepal benefitting from the Seed System Initiative, implemented by Cornell’s Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat (DGGW) project in 2017-18. Farmers like Adhikari who plant quality wheat seeds reap greater harvests and are assured better markets for the seed.

Sathguru’s efforts through DRRW and DGGW have led to conceptualization, development and introduction of SAARC surveillance tool box. This has been instrumental in bringing in a coherence in the surveillance efforts in South Asia thereby ensuring global visibility of surveillance data from the South Asian […]

Sathguru study indicates increasing private sector involvement in Indian wheat seed research and development, needs public private partnership for integrated varietal development suiting to food processing industry  

DGGW efforts since 2016 are relentlessly working towards establishment of an innovative seed village model in Nepal. The model is bringing wheat seed farmers under formal seed production thereby, increasing dissemination and uptake of disease free, quality wheat seeds.

Wheat rust is a severe disease in South Asia that affects productivity, causing 10 to 15 percent in yield losses. By tracking the movement, incidence and severity of rust, surveillance has become an important tool in mitigating its effects.