Hi, i agree with the approach of enhancing the nutritive value of existing food crops to ensure that they remain acceptable - what is your strategy to make sure that they remain affordable? esp. if farmers will have to 'buy' seed instead of own-saved; and also whats your plan to make enough quality seed available?
Another question is - a commonly cited example of bio fortified crops is the orange fleshed sweet potato rich in Vit.A. However the uptake of the crop is not as much as it ought to be - likewise I saw that the Quality Protein Maize is not grown by many farmers in northern Nigeria as they do not see any added economic value. On the contrary they complained that the cost of production is higher than regular varieties. How do you plan to address the trade off between economic returns and nutrition benefits of biofortified crops?
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Hi, i agree with the approach of enhancing the nutritive value of existing food crops to ensure that they remain acceptable - what is your strategy to make sure that they remain affordable? esp. if farmers will have to 'buy' seed instead of own-saved; and also whats your plan to make enough quality seed available?
Another question is - a commonly cited example of bio fortified crops is the orange fleshed sweet potato rich in Vit.A. However the uptake of the crop is not as much as it ought to be - likewise I saw that the Quality Protein Maize is not grown by many farmers in northern Nigeria as they do not see any added economic value. On the contrary they complained that the cost of production is higher than regular varieties. How do you plan to address the trade off between economic returns and nutrition benefits of biofortified crops?
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