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Nepali farmers fight to save indigenous seeds

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SciDev.net

Publication Date
2016-03-31

When the indigenous ‘Jumli Marsi’ variety of rice, grown in Nepal’s Jumla district, was hit by blast infection farmers had little choice but to substitute it with the Chandannath 1 and 3 hybrids that originate in China.

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http://www.scidev.net/south-asia/farming/multimedia/nepali-farmers-fight-to-save-indigenous-seeds.html