Getting rid of subsidies for small-scale rice seed enterprises. Since 2004, seed centres have
rarely functioned except to supply seed to cope with emergency. Rossignol (2008)
argued that they could not run cost-effectively to only cover the seed demand of
smallholders and meet their price preferences unless there are subsidies. Even though
subsidies are indispensable for large seed industries of self-pollinated and orphan
crops,