Global survey of rice breeders to investigate characteristics and willingness to adopt alternative breeding methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the critical role rice breeders play to ensure food security, there is a lack of information regarding their current socio-economic characteristics, constraints and attitudes towards technology adoption. Some key concepts like budget, experience, local ecosystems, level of education and even main breeding method have hardly been surveyed in the past. This not only clouds any policy making regarding scientists in national agricultural research programmes, it also makes it difficult to assess the needs and problems local rice breeders face around the world.

Methods

A global online survey was conducted reaching 189 rice breeders from 51 rice-growing countries around the world. The questionnaire was structured according to an adoption framework we proposed fro

SUBMITTER: Lenaerts B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7507798 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature