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Coordination Between Crop Breeding and Market Intelligence: Groundnut in Tanzania
Market Intelligence Bulletin, Volume 1, March 2024

Coordination Between Crop Breeding and Market Intelligence: Groundnut in Tanzania

Originally published at CGIAR website last Mar 18, 2024
Pieter Rutsaert, Biswanath Das, Jason Donovan, Lila Train

Social science in CGIAR has a history of providing feedback and recommendations to crop breeding programs on seed product design. However, coordination between the s...

How Maize Seed Companies Use Market Intelligence
Market Intelligence Bulletin, Volume 1, March 2024

How Maize Seed Companies Use Market Intelligence

Originally published at CGIAR website last Mar 18, 2024
Pieter Rutsaert, Pauline Muindi, Jason Donovan

In the case of hybrid maize, local and privately owned seed companies design new seed products and distribute them to farmers, who are important market intelligence clie...

Trait Priorities for Irrigated Rice in Southern Asia and South-eastern Asia
Market Intelligence Bulletin, Volume 1, March 2024

Trait Priorities for Irrigated Rice in Southern Asia and South-eastern Asia

Originally published at CGIAR website last Mar 18, 2024
Jhoanne Ynion, Marie Claire Custodio, Matty Demont

Despite the continuous introduction of new rice varieties, farmers persist in cultivating old and popular varieties susceptible to pests and diseases. Data from Inve...

Refining Market Segmentation and Target Product Profiles for Sweetpotato in South-eastern Asia
Market Intelligence Bulletin, Volume 1, March 2024

Refining Market Segmentation and Target Product Profiles for Sweetpotato in South-eastern Asia

Originally published at CGIAR website last Mar 18, 2024
Diego Naziri, Thi Minh Hang Vu, Viet Phu Tu, Reuben Ssali, Julius Juma Okello, Hannele Lindqvist-Kreuze, Vivian Polar

Vietnam is the largest sweetpotato producer in South-eastern Asia. It is also Asia’s 3rd-largest sweetpotato producer (after China and Indonesia) and the world’s 10t...

Expanding the business view of crop breeding
Market Intelligence Bulletin, Volume 1, December 2023

Expanding the business view of crop breeding

Originally published at CGIAR website last Dec 11, 2023
Jason Donovan, Peter Coaldrake

Photo “Sorghum bicolor Bild0902” by Marco Schmidt is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 Governments and donors have challenged crop breeding programs led by CGIAR and nation...

Strong Demand for Early Maturity Maize in Kenya
Market Intelligence Bulletin, Volume 1, December 2023

Strong Demand for Early Maturity Maize in Kenya

Originally published at CGIAR website last Dec 11, 2023
Pieter Rutsaert, Jason Donovan

“Maize Field” by Black Claw is licensed under CC BY 2.0 In Kenya, most farmers produce maize under rain-fed conditions and purchase hybrid maize seeds on an annual ba...