Vegetable Seed Marketing System in Some Selected Areas of Bangladesh

Abstract

The study was undertaken to investigate the marketing of vegetable seed in private sector as well as public sector in five selected areas of Bangladesh. Besides for traders' survey apart from above mentioned areas Mymensingh town and Dhaka city were selected. Three types of respondents, such as vegetable growers, seed traders and seed importers/producers were interviewed with the help of pretested questionnaire during January to April, 1998. 50% of the seeds used were either retained by farmers from previous seasons or purchased from other farmers. Traders handled 48 per cent of the seed and the remaining two per cent was marketed by public sector. Importers and traders purchased seed at Tk. 502190.47 and 140913.33 per quintal, respectively. The production cost of seed producing farm was Tk. 162236.84.

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