Better market intelligence to drive the future of genetic innovation in crops
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08.11.21
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While the technology for breeding better crop varieties has enabled veritable leaps and bounds over the past three decades, adoption rates for improved crops have lagged behind the hopes and expectations of the research for development community.
Indeed, as agriculturalists look toward 2030 and the world’s quest to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the issue of seed systems and improved adoption of new varieties loom as the thorniest challenge in the coming decades.
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