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Nepali farmers fight to save indigenous seeds

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SciDev.net

Publication Date
2016-05-19

When the indigenous Jumli Marsi variety of rice, grown in Nepal’s Jumla district, was hit by blast infection, farmers were forced to replace it with the Chandannath 1 and 3 hybrids that originate in China.

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http://www.scidev.net/global/farming/multimedia/nepali-farmers-indigenous-seeds.html