Identifying the Factors That Influence Small-Scale Farmers Transaction Costs in Relation to Seed Acquisition

By Badstue, Lone B.

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Title:	Identifying the Factors That Influence Small-Scale Farmers Transaction Costs in Relation to Seed Acquisition
Author:	Badstue, Lone B.
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Language:	English
Subject:	United Nations., Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. FAO agriculture series, Agriculture
Collections:	United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Collection
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Publisher:	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Digitizer: Fao


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Excerpt: This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study with the purpose of identifying the factors that influence the transaction costs of acquiring seed for maize growing small-scale farmers in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico. A formal seed sector has yet to develop in this region, and most farmers therefore continue to produce their own maize seed year after year. However, maize farmers in the study area occasionally acquire seed from other sources, mostly other farmers, either because of seed loss due to climatic or storage problems, or because they want to try out / work with other kinds of maize. Previous research in the region showed that 89.7% of maize seed lots were saved by farmers from their own previous harvest, and the rest were acquired from other farmers (Smale et al. 1999).