An Analysis of Social Seed Network and Its Contribution to On-Farm Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity in Nepal

Table 5

Stability in number of nodal farmers in rice seed networks across study sites.

Study sites	Number of nodal farmers in different points of time
	2001	2003	2005
Begnas (mid hill)	18 (21%)^†	5 (08%)	9 (19%)
Kholako Chhew (low hill)	8 (16%)	7 (23%)	7 (21%)
Kachorwa (Tarai plains)	26 (34%)	10 (12%)	2 (2%)

Percentage of the nodal farmers was calculated with respect to total farmers in the network and refers to the fraction of the total network occupied by nodal farmer.