Review on Seed System Progress in Ethiopia

Abstract

for continuous seed production, well organized and adjusted seed system of the countries are very essential. The term seed system is comprised of seed production process up to marketing of the produces. In Ethiopia there are different seed system namely formal, informal and integrated those had different level of quality and then meet to end users. Beside of the availability of those systems located in our country the main challenges in the distribution, low quality and marketing system are the core. In addition to this, limited collaboration within the seed sector, private companies tend to concentrate on profitable crops for their own pocket, lack of awareness and knowledge gap about seed production, inadequate basic seed supply, budget limitation and lack of effective large scale seed enterprises. To solve such problem having depth knowledge of the progress of the countries seed system is very crucial point, thus the great aim of this review was to review on seed system progress of Ethiopia. This may help us to deal the gap and find a solution for coming generation awareness in improvement of their produce under well-organized seed system.