A case study on seed replacement rate, existing seed delivery system and value chain analysis of existing suppliers & paddy growers in Siddharth Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh
Author(s):
Shailendra Pratap Singh, Dr. Ameesh J Stephen, Dr. Ashish S Noel and Paras Nath Jhariya
Abstract:
The Siddharthnagar district is divided into 5 tehsils and 14 blocks, where for Kalanamak production and constraints study the blocks were purposively selected whereas for estimation of seed replacement rate and for other objective estimations, the blocks were randomly selected. Barhni, Itwa, Shohratgarh, and Dumariyaganj, these four blocks are taken for further study about paddy seed distribution, utility and assessment of seed replacement rate for last 20 years. The primary data were certainly collected from the seed growers, distributers and farmers. The socio-economic details and various aspect of production and marketing of paddy seed were collected through various personal interview sessions with the help of pre-structured interview schedule. The secondary data were derived from state seed development and distribution bodies, Siddharthnagar Kirshi Bhawan, Vikas Bhawan (Naugadh) Sidharthnagar, from state economic survey 2019 and seed dacnet sites along with various e-sources. The percentage distribution to various variety grower and paddy growers at various sectors were selected block and villages in Siddharthnagar. Cluster analysis done to integrate the seed utilizing community according to their primary and secondary income and their educational as well occupational segregation. The sequence of related business deals (activates) from special input for specific product to primary production, grading, marketing certification etc. to final selling till consumers. The Seed Replacement Rate (SRR) of researched/certified seeds amongst various sections of the farming community and here the marginal community of farmers had shown seed replacement rate of certified seeds was found to be 37.39. Barhni block had shown highest of 23.12 percent of SRR during the year of 2013, whereas Shohratgarh has shown 23.81 percent of Seed replacement rate amongst all the four blocks. During 2016-17, it could be easily estimated that marginal landholders have done better utility of notified seed with a percentage share of 74.69 percent. The rest have performed as usual but small farming community had performed relatively better year-wise. 16.75, 6.39, 2.08 and 0.09were the respective percentage share of small, medium, semi-medium and large farming community. At farmers level germination failures have scored highest factor loadings with 0.809 stood first showing the impact of germination percentage on paddy seed utility. Price determination by external sources rather the government has occupied second last position with 0.773 scoring suggesting that the paddy seed cost determination must be done by the government agencies, the paddy seed cost higher than actual realization.
How to cite this article:
Shailendra Pratap Singh, Dr. Ameesh J Stephen, Dr. Ashish S Noel, Paras Nath Jhariya. A case study on seed replacement rate, existing seed delivery system and value chain analysis of existing suppliers & paddy growers in Siddharth Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. Pharma Innovation 2022;11(2):3065-3070.