Book Detail: Seed Production of Vegetable, Tuber and Spice Crops
Language: English
Pages: 405
Author: P. Geetha Rani
Price: Free
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Outlines of Seed Production of Vegetable, Tuber and Spice Crops
- Introduction to seed and seed quality
- History and Development of Vegetable Seed Industry in India
- Scope for vegetable seed production in India
- Principles and practices of vegetable seed production
- Factors affecting quality seed production
- Varietal and hybrids seed production in solanaceous vegetables
- Varietal and hybrid seed production in bhendi and onion
- Varietal and hybrid seed production in gourds
- Varietal and hybrid seed production in amaranthus and moringa
- Varietal and hybrid seed production in leguminous and exotic vegetables
- Seed production in Cabbage and Cauliflower
- Seed production in carrot, radish and beetroot
- Seed production in coriander, fennel and fenugreek
- Seed production in pepper (Piper nigrum)
- Seed production in potato
- Seed production in tapioca
- Mid-term examination
- Seed production technology in turmeric and ginger
- Physiological and harvestable maturity for seeds
- Threshing and seed extraction methods
- Drying principles and methods
- Seed processing
- Grading and upgrading equipments
- Seed certification
- Seed testing
- Purity analysis and germination test for seeds
- Seed treatment
- Seed storage
- Seed packing and godown storage
- Seeds act and rules
- Central seed committee, central seed certification board, state seed certification agency, central and state seed testing laboratories
- Seed law enforcement
- Seed control order (1983) and new seed policy (2002)
- Seed village concept
Practical
- Study of seed structure, colour,size, shape and texture of vegetable and spice crop seeds
- Study of varietal characters in different vegetable crops
- Identification of off-types, rogues in different vegetables
- Practicing field counting procedures in broadcast and row crop of open pollinated and hybrid seed field.
- Visit to varietal and hybrid seed production field
- Study of harvest indices, fruit grading and seed extraction techniques
- Seed production planning – calculation of area requirement for different classes of seed and seed production economics
- Visit to seed processing unit
- Seed sampling – equipments – mixing and dividing methods
- Moisture estimation – equipments used – reporting results
- Purity analysis – equipments used – reporting results
- Seed germination testing – tetrazolium test – evaluation
- Seedling evaluation – seed health test – testing and identification of pathogen / insects
- Visit to seed testing – laboratory
- Seed invigouration techniques – hardening – pelleting
- Seed enhancement techniques – colour and gravity separation
- Practical examination
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This is very useful document for training extension workers and farmers to produce quality vegetable seeds