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REGIONAL TRADE IN SEED, FERTILIZER,

AND STRATEGIC GRAINS

A Review of the Legal, Regulatory, and Institutional Constraints to Growth Across South Asia

APRIL 2014

Nepal

Bangladesh

India

REGIONAL TRADE IN SEED, FERTILIZER,

AND STRATEGIC GRAINS

A Review of the Legal, Regulatory, and Institutional Constraints to Growth Across South Asia

APRIL 2014

DISCLAIMER

The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development nor the United States Government.

CONTENTS

LIST OF ACRONYMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

CHAPTER 1: INDIAN TRADE IN SEEDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER 2: INDIAN TRADE IN FERTILIZER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

CHAPTER 3: INDIAN TRADE IN GRAINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

CHAPTER 4: SOUTH ASIAN REGIONAL

INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

ANNEX 1: BANGLADESH TRADE OVERVIEW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

ANNEX 2:TRADE IN SEED ¨C BANGLADESH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

ANNEX 3:TRADE IN FERTILIZER ¨C BANGLADESH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

ANNEX 4:TRADE IN GRAINS ¨C BANGLADESH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

ANNEX 5: NEPAL ¨C TRADE OVERVIEW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

ANNEX 6:TRADE IN SEED ¨C NEPAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

ANNEX 7: NUMBER OF VARIETIES REGISTERED IN NEPAL ¨C 2003-12. . . . . . . . . 68

ANNEX 8:TRADE IN FERTILIZER ¨C NEPAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

ANNEX 9:TRADE IN GRAINS ¨C NEPAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

RECOMMENDATIONS: REGIONAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

RECOMMENDATIONS: COUNTRY SPECIFIC ¨C BANGLADESH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

RECOMMENDATIONS: COUNTRY SPECIFIC ¨C NEPAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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