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Seed Treatment :: Methods

ACID DELINTING IN COTTON

Factors influencing
  • Type of acid
  • Seed size / varietal character
  • Efficiency of persons
  • Washing
  • Neutralising

Precautions

  • Don’t  use hand while mixing use wooden poles
  • Use plastic bucket only
  • Mix the seeds for only 2-3 minutes and not more than that as excess acid will kill the seed
  • Give through washing
  • Dry the seed to low moisture content for longer storability
  • Remove the broken and immature seed

           
Advantages

  • Seed borne pathogens are eliminated
  • Destroyed boll worm eggs on the seed coat
  • Remove the inhibitors in the pericarp
  • Increase seed germination and vigour
  • Reduce the seed rate
  • Make seed free flowing
  • Make mechanical sowing feasible
  • Storability is more
Updated on : Jan, 2016
 
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