Global survey data on rice breeders' characteristics and willingness to adopt alternative breeding methods

Bert Lenaerts; Bertrand C Y Collard; Yann de Mey; Matty Demont

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.103782

Global survey data on rice breeders' characteristics and willingness to adopt alternative breeding methods

Data Brief. 2019 Feb 27:23:103782. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103782. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Authors

Bert Lenaerts^{1

2

3}, Bertrand C Y Collard⁴, Yann de Mey⁵, Matty Demont²

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Environmental Sciences, UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium.
² Agri-food Policy Platform, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines.
³ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Plant Breeding Platform, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines.
⁵ Business Economics Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Abstract

The data presented in this article contains information on 189 rice breeders from 51 rice-growing countries around the world. Firstly, this unique dataset permits to lay down a baseline of currently used breeding methods. Secondly, the data allow to make an assessment of the adoption behavior of rice breeders towards alternative breeding methods, and in specific rapid generation advance. A global online survey in Google Forms was conducted to obtain information about the different aspects of the adoption process. Both the raw and cleaned data are made available, along with Stata code to promote further research into adoption of breeding methods by public and private breeding institutes.