Benefits or adventages of seed treatment
Benefits or adventages of seed treatment
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a) Protects the seed from seed rot and seedling blights
- Pythium and rhizoctonia will rot the seed even before it emerges.
- Mechanical injury can be protected using fungicide coating.
b) Improves germination
- Controlling seed borne fungi.
c) Provides protection from storage pest
- 20% loss due to storage pest.
d) Controlling soil insects
- Nematodes, maggots, roots grub.
e) Addition of nutrition
- Addition of nutrients to the seeds by seed pelleting.
f) Facilitate easy sowing
- Increasing the size of seed signluation of fuzzy seeds.
g) Inoculation of bio-fertilizers / or bio-control agents
- To increase nitrogen fixation. Trichoderma virida to control wilt disease in pulses.
h) To remove dormancy factors
- Removal of hard seed coat – acid heat treatments.
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Last modified: Thursday, 22 March 2012, 11:13 PM