reveal poor communication between the
actors of the formal seed sector and farmers about the reasons of non-adoption
of improved varieties and the limited use of seed from the formal sector. More
specifically, the perception of the extension service depicts its top-down vision of seed
development showing that the collaboration between extension and farmers (formal
seed producers) that occurred during the NGO-led intervention did not alter much
the rigid view it held and likely inherited from the training and visit era.