Disseminating modern sweetpotato varieties using participatory variety demonstration trials on informal nodal multipliers’ fields at hub locations

Journal of Crop Improvement

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 229-246

  Obong, Yuventino ^a   Omony, Terence ^a   Rachkara, Paul ^b   Gibson, Richard William ^c  

^a Ngetta Zonal Agricultural Research and Development institute   (Uganda)

^b GULU UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local multipliers; planting material; seed systems; Uganda; variety distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013669625     PISSN: 15427528     EISSN: 15427536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15427528.2017.1282910     Document Type: Article

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