19 Aug Field standards for seed production of forage crops
चारा फसलों के बीज उत्पादन के लिए फील्ड मानक India sustains about 10.7 per cent of the world’s livestock population. The productivity of our livestock often remains low due to inadequate and nutritionally unbalanced supply of feed and fodder. Availability of quality seed in forage crops to enhance production and productivity of feed and fodder is long felt need. Forage crops in general and range grasses and legumes in particular are shy seed producers. Therefore, quantity and quality seed production is an important area that needs to be strengthened for vertical growth in cultivated fodders. Usually farmers do not produce seed. The seeds sold in local market are of poor quality and infested with weeds/ diseased /insect damaged, a discouraging factor for forage cultivation. Moreover, prevalence of several diseases compounded by the fluctuating climate is a major threat to all crops including fodders. Looking into a wide acceptability among farmers and high demand for quality seed, concerted efforts are needed to develop suitable seed production method of superior varieties. And a good seed production method is intended to maintain and make available to the public, through certification, high quality seeds and propagating materials of notified kind and varieties so grown and distributed as to ensure genetic identity and genetic purity. Since the...