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Participatory plant breeding

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Mexico, DF (Mexico) CIMMYT : 2003Description: p. 30-31Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 631.53 BOO
Summary: Participatory plant breeding (PPB) that involves farmers in early generations in the breeding process is becoming more widely adopted. In the PPB programs described here, the introduction of farmer participation inevitably a1so includes decentralization of the breeding program to the farmers' fields. In addition these programs: (1) pay much attention to choosing the parents of the crosses; (2) use few crosses or populations; (3) and follow simple breeding methods. This fits better with the resources when farmers are active collaborators in the research. Breeders using conventional methods can deal with several composites perhaps involving the making of hundreds of crosses every season and test many families from each composite. PPB has to employ many fewer crosses, entries and plots because individual farmers cannot be expected to grow trials of hundreds of entries without help from researchers.
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Participatory plant breeding (PPB) that involves farmers in early generations in the breeding process is becoming more widely adopted. In the PPB programs described here, the introduction of farmer participation inevitably a1so includes decentralization of the breeding program to the farmers' fields. In addition these programs: (1) pay much attention to choosing the parents of the crosses; (2) use few crosses or populations; (3) and follow simple breeding methods. This fits better with the resources when farmers are active collaborators in the research. Breeders using conventional methods can deal with several composites perhaps involving the making of hundreds of crosses every season and test many families from each composite. PPB has to employ many fewer crosses, entries and plots because individual farmers cannot be expected to grow trials of hundreds of entries without help from researchers.

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0309|AGRIS 0301|AL-Maize Program

Juan Carlos Mendieta

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