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Natural Seed Treatment

Tamil Nadu farmers are adopting a seed treatment system as per the recommendations of the Agriculture and Research Centers to protect the vigor of the crop from disease attacks and to get higher yields. Oxidation and contamination of our food and land become inevitable even when crops are protected from pest and disease attacks, especially when treated with chemical and synthetic agrochemicals and pesticides. In such an environment natural seed treatment would be very effective for the farmers to protect the environment and get higher profit and yield.

Natural Seed Treatment Method:

Farmers make their seeds from naturally occurring oatmeal (a mixture of wormwood, goat urine, goat's milk, goat's yogurt, banana juice, seaweed cake, cane juice, and s) or Panchakavya mixture (dung, cow urine, milk, yogurt, cane sugar, banana). , Cane juice, s, yeast and seaweed cake) can be mixed with 300 ml in 10 liters of water and used for seed treatment. Paddy and hard-skinned seeds can be soaked for 24 hours before sowing. Thus after seed treatment, the seeds should be sown after drying well in the shade. Thus natural seed treatment will help the seedlings to grow well. Rooting is found in large numbers. Crops grow well in drought-tolerant areas, free from pests and diseases. Farmers can easily store the seeds required for the next season by soaking them in Panchakavya and drying them in the shade. This way the seeds are not attacked by pests and diseases. Entrepreneurship will also be maintained without declining next season.

Other benefits: Soil, paddy, and tomato seedlings can be soaked in Panchakavya and Attack solution to control fungal, viral, and rootworm infestation. Environmental pollution can be prevented as farmers make use of the natural agricultural products they have at a low cost. More farmers can get higher yields and profits.

Seed treatment before vegetable sowing

Seed treatment is essential before sowing vegetable seeds. Seed treatment is especially important for those who grow tomatoes, aubergines, and chilies. Vegetable crops are affected by various diseases such as root rot, blight, seedling disease, and leaf spot disease. They are also spread by seeds. The fungal spores rest on the top and inside of the seed. When the seeds germinate, the fungal spores germinate and cause disease and damage under favorable conditions. To prevent this, the seeds should be treated with Pseudomonas fluorescens at the rate of 10 g / kg seed just before sowing. Seed treatment can prevent nursery disease under favorable conditions in the nursery. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a biological fungicide, costs around Rs 100 Addicted vegetable growers are asked to use Pseudomonas fluorescent biological fungicide

Liquid level Pseudomonas fluorescens

The proverb is that a seed is a great virtue. Seed health is the basis of agriculture. Insects that attack seeds and grains are mostly beetles and worms. These can be controlled by proper means. About 40 species of insects attack, reducing the seeds by up to 5 percent. Insects that attack grains and seeds first infect the inside and eat the entire nutrient area, leaving only the hollow hole. With this type of grain, it cannot provide its essential nutrients.

An entomologist on methods of collecting seeds :

To store the seeds, use fresh hair bags. It is essential to keep storage warehouses and storage rooms clean. That is, broken powdered grains, debris, dust, etc. should be removed and burned. Storage rooms for seeds and grains should be waxed with neem paste and neem oil solution. On bamboo baskets, make a thick paste of neem paste solution and apply it. The moisture content of stored grains should be less than 14 percent. The moisture content of stored seeds should be less than 8 percent. One hundred kilos of paddy seeds can be stored by mixing one kilogram of neem nut powder or one kilogram of stimulated clay or one liter of neem oil. To store one hundred kg of rice, 12 kg of neem leaves, one kg of neem Pum nut powder, or one liter of neem oil (a) can be collected using one kg of activated clay and salmon, 50 g of boric acid. Similarly, to store 100 kg of wheat should use 5 kg of mint powder. To store 100 kg of manila seeds, mix 5 kg of turmeric powder. Use cloth bags to store vegetable seeds. Humidity should not exceed 7 to 8 percent. Polythene bags should be used for long-term storage and humidity should be kept at 6%. Vegetable seeds can be soaked in green manure and then stored for drying. One hundred kg of sorghum and green lentils can be stored using one kg of stimulated clay and 7 kg of salmon (a) using basil leaf or one liter of neem oil.

How to do seed treatment with Panchakavya?

Panchakavya can not only be used as a natural fertilizer and pesticide resistance for crops, but also for seed treatment. Before spraying the required seed paddy per acre, mix 300 ml of Panchakavya in 100 liters of water and soak the seed paddy in a sack for 12 hours. Then take the seed paddy and cover it with a sack. After 12 hours pour 15 liters of water 50 ml of Panchakavya and mix it all over the seed paddy and put it in a sack and cover it tightly. If you look at the seed after ten hours all the seeds will germinate like garlic and look like silver wire. Then spray the seeds. Sorghum paddy should be planted in ten days for short duration crops, 14 days for medium duration crops, and 16 days for long-duration crops. First stage seed treatment is very important in cultivation. Seed germination without repair by seed treatment. The disease can be prevented by seeding. The crop is the nutrient to grow prosperously. Panchakavya treatment is the simple process of making fungus in a natural way that has the opposite effect.