Post Harvest Management Strategies and Storage Approaches for Quality Seed Production | Chapter 8 | Emerging Issues in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 2

 Post harvest administration includes the processes done directly after reaping the produce, including cooling, cleansing, sorting and packing. After the crop is picked immediately from the field, there is a extreme chance of deterioration on account of its initial extreme moisture content. Therefore postharvest treatments are likely to increase its useful life of product and maintain its character. In terms of cleaning and improving of cereal seeds, blowing away fans are used for break-up of unwanted materials specifically weed seeds, hay, rice husks, panicle stalks, empty and broken grains, sand, rocks, rocks, dust, plastics, and even alloy and glass particles. The dampness content of the harvested seeds at the beginning stage should be drained in the range of 20-23%. Whereas the moisture content at the final stage of drying endure be maintained at 13%. If not properly drained, the seed gets overrun with insects early and the pregnancy percentage of the seed portion deteriorates fast. Another important operation afterwards drying is grading that helps in the removal of smaller and dehydrated seeds from the well filled active seeds. In order to claim vigor and viability of the stocked seeds, seed situation is considered to be an essential step that includes use of fungicides, pesticides, insecticides or a combination of these in order to pure and disinfest seeds from seed carried or soil borne pathogenic structures and storage insects. For the control of depository insects and pests, moving air through a space is done particularly accompanying Aluminium Phosphide and Methyl Bromide. Hence, in order to claim proper management and depository of seeds, seed dampness and temperature are deliberate to be the most main factors for maintaining and maintaining quality of seeds specifically vigor and animation of the stored seeds.

Author(s) Details:

Priyanka Sharma,
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Seed Science and Technology Programme, Assam Agricultural University, India.

Monish Roy,
Department of Seed Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Pundi Bari, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India.

Bidhan Roy,
Department of Seed Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Pundi Bari, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India.

Sharmila Dutta Deka,
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Seed Science and Technology Programme, Assam Agricultural University, India.

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