Seed Production
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Skill Course: Seed Production
Teacher
Dr. Prabhat Kumar Singh
Category
Skill Courses
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Course Credits ( T-P-P): 4 credits (0-4-0)
Course Objective(s):
To impart knowledge regarding principles of seed production
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this course, students will be able to enrich their Experiential Learning on
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Seed production of different crops
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Seed processing, storage and sell of produced seed
Course Syllabus:
- Selection of suitable areas/locations, seed/planting material for quality seed production
- Practice on seed production of cereal crops
- Practice on seed production of vegetable crops
- General procedure of seed certification
- Identification of weed and other crop seeds as per specific crops
- Field inspection at different stages of a crop and observations recorded
- Inspection and sampling at harvesting/threshing for seed law enforcement
- Sampling methods and seed quality test
- Varietal Identification through Grow Out Test and Electrophoresis
- Different methods of seed extraction
- Learn the seed sampling methods
- Seed testing: physical purity and moisture test
- Seed testing: germination and vigour test
- Seed testing: viability test
- Learn the machines of seed processing
- Visit to seed processing unit
- control measures for stored grain disease and pest
- Visit to Seed storage unit
- Seed marketing: structure and organization and pricing policy
- Visit to seed production farms, seed testing laboratories and seed processing unit.
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On the surface, Dr. Prabhat Kumar Singh is an accomplished Assistant Professor in Genetics and Plant Breeding, MSSSoA, CUTM, Paralakhemundi, Odisha with more than 3 years of experience in teaching and research. During the PG and PhD programme, Dr. Singh worked on Mutation breeding in tuberose and grasspea respectively. As a result of dissertation work […]