Seed Production of Vegetable, Tuber and Spice Crops (2+1)

Benefits or adventages of seed treatment

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.