“…For instance, socio-economic issues such as financial and land resource constraints affect the adoption of HYVs among smallholders. Furthermore, agroecological complexities (Baidu-Forson, 1999;Atilaw et al, 2016;Ainissyifa et al, 2018), farmer demographic characteristics such as smallholders' age (Adesina and Baidu-Forson, 1995;Adeogun et al, 2010), farmers' level of education (Caswell et al, 2001;Buah et al, 2011), smallholders' gender (Doss and Morris, 2001;Doss, 2013), sociocultural settings and prevailing farm practices (Nyantakyi-Frimpong and Kerr, 2015;Vercillo et al, 2015;Kansanga et al, 2019), and more recently, the enduring intensification dilemma to adopt or not to adopt among smallholder farmers (Quarshie and Abdulai, 2021) have been determined as a significant determinant of improved seeds adoption in SSA. In contrast, minimal attention is given to the potential of seed value chain constraints that affect improved seeds' adoption rate (Langyintuo et al, 2010).…”