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Innovative and beneficial informal sweetpotato seed private enterprise in northern Uganda

Research conducted in the informal sweetpotato seed (vines) supply system in the Gulu region, northern Uganda (2013–2015) revealed a diverse set of actors using private enterprise in a range of selling and marketing channels. The different channels offer an efficient and effective marketing system,...

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Autores principales: Rachkara, Paul, Phillips, David Paul, Kalule, Stephen Wamala, Gibson, Richard William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Society for Plant Pathology and Springer Nature B.V. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7473088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32968464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-017-0680-4
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description Research conducted in the informal sweetpotato seed (vines) supply system in the Gulu region, northern Uganda (2013–2015) revealed a diverse set of actors using private enterprise in a range of selling and marketing channels. The different channels offer an efficient and effective marketing system, providing different services and conveniences for farmers at different prices. The actors include local vine multipliers, traders, dry season root farmers, transporters and town sellers. The local multipliers and dry season root farmers grow crops during the dry season in swampy areas and sell the vines in the following rainy season to the many farmers who lack access to such areas and therefore lack vines to plant. The presentation and discussion of this case study adds to an expanding argument in the literature for increased attention to support actors in informal food crop sectors who are providing sustainable production and marketing systems on a platform of beneficial and innovative private enterprise. Through their commercial operations, vine multipliers and other actors can effectively meet the demand of customers and at the right time and place. With suitable dissemination programmes installed, these actors could also offer access to new varieties otherwise unavailable to the majority of farmers.
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spelling pubmed-74730882020-09-21 Innovative and beneficial informal sweetpotato seed private enterprise in northern Uganda Rachkara, Paul Phillips, David Paul Kalule, Stephen Wamala Gibson, Richard William Food Secur Original Paper Research conducted in the informal sweetpotato seed (vines) supply system in the Gulu region, northern Uganda (2013–2015) revealed a diverse set of actors using private enterprise in a range of selling and marketing channels. The different channels offer an efficient and effective marketing system, providing different services and conveniences for farmers at different prices. The actors include local vine multipliers, traders, dry season root farmers, transporters and town sellers. The local multipliers and dry season root farmers grow crops during the dry season in swampy areas and sell the vines in the following rainy season to the many farmers who lack access to such areas and therefore lack vines to plant. The presentation and discussion of this case study adds to an expanding argument in the literature for increased attention to support actors in informal food crop sectors who are providing sustainable production and marketing systems on a platform of beneficial and innovative private enterprise. Through their commercial operations, vine multipliers and other actors can effectively meet the demand of customers and at the right time and place. With suitable dissemination programmes installed, these actors could also offer access to new varieties otherwise unavailable to the majority of farmers. International Society for Plant Pathology and Springer Nature B.V. 2017-05-19 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC7473088/ /pubmed/32968464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-017-0680-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2017. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third party material in this article for license information.
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