Abstract
In community seed production, farmers produce seed at the household level but sell it to markets through their organizations. To maximize benefit at marketing, farmers tend to sell the maximum proportion of the seed produced in a household, but this does not hold true in subsistence farming. This chapter analyzes the impacts of socioeconomic variables in household seed-selling behavior in rice and wheat. A field survey was carried out in three Tarai districts of Nepal including 180 households, and data analysis was done using the Heckman selection model as it captures selection bias. Results showed that 65 % of the surveyed households sell rice seed in the market and the sold seed comprises 64.4 % of the total rice seed produced by a household. Similarly, for wheat 44.4 % of households participate in the market and sell 92.5 % of the produced seed. This chapter also identifies the significant roles of family labor, irrigation facility, operational land, training, share collection, and seed price in household behavior in selling rice and wheat seed in the market.
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LFU is a measure for labor force, where people from 15–59 years old regardless of their sex were categorized as 1 person = 1 LFU, but in case of children (10–14 years old) and elderly people (>59 years old) 1 person = 0.5 LFU
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LSU is the aggregate of different types of livestock kept at household in standard units calculated using the following equivalents; 1 adult buffalo = 1 LSU, 1 immature buffalo = 0.5 LSU, 1 cow = 0.8 LSU, 1 calf = 0.4 LSU, 1 pig = 0.3 LSU, 1 sheep or goat = 0.2 LSU and 1 poultry or pigeon =0.1 LSU (Khanal and Maharjan 2014)
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Khanal, N.P., Maharjan, K.L. (2015). Households’ Behavior in Selling Rice and Wheat Seed in the Market. In: Community Seed Production Sustainability in Rice-Wheat Farming. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55474-5_7
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