No 2 WIRFP Farmer-managed Participatory

Resource-poor farmers seldom have access to technologies such as new crop varieties that may improve their livelihoods. Many farmers grow old varieties or landraces, and hence fail to benefit from the most modern products of plant breeding. Adoption of new varieties is
lowest amongst the poor.
One of the main reasons for low cultivar replacement rates is that farmers have inadequate exposure to new cultivars.
Farmers also often think new varieties are not better than those they already grow, so they are unwilling
to try them.

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