Why involve Farmers in Plant Breeding?

"Most of the plant breeding programs of the twentieth century have totally failed to achieve their objective of increasing resistance to disease and pests. We are actually increasing the susceptibility of many of our crops to disease and parasites."

Dr. Raoul Robinson

Since the origins of agriculture, farmers have improved plants and livestock to develop the foods of today. Yet in recent decades, farmers have almost given up the responsibility of plant improvement to government researchers and private sector breeders. Increasing takeovers in the seed industry by biotechnology corporations do not benefit organic farmers.

Download the book, Return to Resistance and others by Dr. Robinson, an expert in breeding plants for durable disease resistance., who is now making his simple techniques available to amateur breeders everywhere.

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