Bean Technology Dissemination Project Beneficiary Survey in Honduras

To address the critical shortage of high quality bean seed that smallholder resource poor farmers need to increase productivity, in 2010, the Dry Grain Pulses CRSP managed by Michigan State University, through funding from USAID, initiated the Bean Technology Dissemination (BTD) project focused on four countries in Central America and the Caribbean—Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Haiti. The objective of the BTD project was to enable a large number of rural families to escape poverty by introducing technologies that improved the productivity and economic viability of small-scale farms. A major focus of the BTD project was to build “seed security” in the region through the multiplication, distribution and effective storage of bean seed of improved varieties. This dataset is an output of the survey of BTD project beneficiaries conducted in Honduras in 2013 by Michigan State University: a) to understand the profiles and the household bean production economy in the BTD project areas, b) to assess the pros and cons of the availability of seeds of improved varieties distributed by the project; and c) to derive lessons on the strategy of scaling up bean seed dissemination efforts.