HYBRID RICE ECONOMICS

Hybrid Rice Economics is a comprehensive guide to the economic evaluation of rice hybrids. Plant breeders, agronomists, farmers, seed producers and administrators involved in hybrid rice development and production will learn the economic criteria that determine product viability and understand why some hybrids fail and others succeed. With a foreword by Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, this book takes the reader through the traits and factors which determine the economic value of a hybrid and the model for determining product viability... The economic model in the book and its application to specific hybrids uses a simple methodology that can be applied across different countries, currencies and cultivation systems. The book introduces a way of displaying the comparative economic characteristics of different hybrids in different countries which gives a unique insight into the components of product value. The methodology includes techniques for establishing hybrid seed prices.