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Theory:
Scope and importance of vegetable and flower seed industry in India; different categories of seed, influence of self and cross pollination on seed setting, isolation distance and pollinators Techniques of seed production: annual and biennial habits with reference to seed production in different vegetable and flower crops Factors influencing seed production on dioecious, monoecious and hermaphrodite crops; seed harvesting, curing, extraction, cleaning, drying, grading, packing and storage; viability maintenance Control of seed borne diseases and insect pests; minimum seed standards of vegetables and flower crops for germination; seed certification |
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Classes of seed and its standards; seed viability tests; methods of breaking seed dormancy identification and description of varieties in different vegetable crops and flowering annuals; isolation distance followed in different vegetable crops; planning and lay out of commercial vegetable seed production plots raising of nursery in vegetable crops; hardening of seedlings; sowing of leguminous and cucurbitaceous vegetables; rouging (removal of off-type plants) in vegetable seed production plots at vegetative phase rouging of vegetable seed production plots at reproductive phase and pre-harvest stage; demonstration of seed extraction methods in tomato, brinjal, chilli, etc.; drying, cleaning, grading and packing of vegetable seeds raising of nurseries of annual flowering plants; methods of planting flowering annuals; use of growth regulators in propagation of ornamental plants propagation of flowering plants through cuttings, layering and budding; layout and establishment of commercial nurseries |
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visit to commercial nurseries; seed production farms of vegetables and flowers, seed testing laboratories, seed processing industries. |
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Seed Production of Vegetable & Flower Crops (Paper Code: 17010721)
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