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Seed Businesses In Uganda Handbook for Local Quality Declared Seed Production

For a sustainable supply of quality seed, there is need for a well-developed human and physical infrastructure to support the production, conditioning and marketing of seed.

The Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) project is supporting the development of a vibrant pluralistic and market oriented seed sector in Uganda, with support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands.

Between 2012 and 2016, ISSD Uganda, in partnership with the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), trained over 100 farmers in three zones (Northern, South Western and West Nile region) to become sustainable Local Seed Businesses (LSBs) to enhance production and supply of quality seed in their local communities. The success of this LSB model has since been out scaled to three new zones in Uganda (Eastern, South western Highlands-Kigezi and Rwenzori region) targeting 200 additional LSBs to produce Quality Declared Seed, a new seed class in Uganda.

This Handbook on Quality Declared Seed production (QDS) is therefore timely to share best practices on seed production and consolidate the approach of supporting new LSBs.