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Quality seed and sustainability

Quality seed is defined as varietally pure with a high germination percentage, free from disease and disease organisms, and with proper moisture content and weight. Quality seed ensures good germination, rapid emergence, and vigorous growth. The use of quality seed helps greatly in higher production per unit area to attain the food security of the […]

कम्पोष्ट मल- महत्त्व र बनाउने तरिका

बोट बिरूवा तथा पशुपछीबाट प्राप्त हुने पराल, छवाली, गोबर, विभिन्न घाँपातहरू, खरानी, चुन आदिलाई नियमित तवरले तह–तह पारी क्रमैसँग राखी पटक–पटक पल्टाएर कुहाई तयार पारिएको मललाई कम्पोष्ट मल भनिन्छ ।गोठेमोल जस्तै यो पनि प्राङ्गारिक मल हो। कम्पोष्ट मलका फाईदाहरू:- यसले बोट बिरूवाहरूको लागि आवश्यक पर्ने विभिन्न किसिमका खाद्य तत्वहरू प्रदान गर्दछ । यसले माटोको पानी […]

Seed drying: A major step to maintain seed viability and vigor 

A variety of seeds are commonly stored for consumption or processing in the future. The primary concern in such storage is to protect the seed from damage by fire, water, insects, and rodents. However, seeds must also be preserved for sowing at a later date or for genetic experiments. When stored for such purposes, the […]

Hybrid Maize Seed Production Technology

Hybrid seed is the seed produced by hybridization i.e. by crossing between two or more homozygous inbred lines to obtain a desirable type having high yield potential. Only the F1 generation of hybrids is recommended for use as seed for commercial production. Hybrid maize seed production involves deliberately crossing a female parent population with a […]

SEED TREATMENT TECHNIQUES

Seed can be defined as a fertilized mature ovule that is enclosed in a protective testa (outer covering) possessing endosperm as food material and is an embryonic plant. Quality seed is viable and has the capacity to germinate. The role of seed in the agriculture sector is of prime importance in developing and agricultural countries […]

DESIS: Improving Seed Access in Nepal Through Technology

People’s ways of working, producing, consuming, trading, and living have all changed dramatically as a result of the COVID-19 issue. There has been a broad shift to working from home as well as a growing reliance on e-commerce for groceries and other daily necessities, both of which have impacted traditional retail. Agriculture is the main […]

SEED TREATMENT

Seed treatments are the biological, physical, and chemical agents and techniques applied to seed to provide protection and improve the establishment of healthy crops. It also refers to the application of fungicide, insecticide, or a combination of both, to seeds so as to disinfect and disinfect them from seed-borne or soil-borne pathogenic organisms and storage […]

SEED DORMANCY – A SURVIVAL MECHANISM OF SEED

Dormancy is a period in an organism’s life cycle when growth, development, and physical activity are temporarily stopped. Dormancy is a period of reduced metabolic activity and therefore helps an organism to conserve energy. Dormancy can be observed in plants as well as in animals. In animals, mechanisms of dormancy occur through hibernation, aestivation, diapause, […]

Indigenous and traditional practices on grain and seed storage

Indigenous practices are the practices that emerge from the cultural contact of the people concerned, evolve in close contact with specific environmental conditions, and are based on traditional societies’ intimate knowledge of their environment. Through trial and error methods, a number of traditional practices have been evolving to avoid a huge loss that is occurring […]

नेपालको कृषि विकास क्रमको ऐतिहासिक विवेचना   

हिमालयको काखमा अवस्थित नेपाल  जैविक बिभिदता , बिभिद हावापानी , हिमाल पहाड तराई सहितको उर्वर भुमी ले सु-सज्जीत तथा प्राकृतिक सम्पदाले धनि  साथै लामो मानव सभ्यता बोकेको  मुलुक हो । यही प्राकृतिक अनुपममा लोभिएर धेरै पहिले देखी हाम्रा पुर्खाहरु यस भुमिमा आई यहाको सितलता तापी मन्त्र मुग्ध भई बसोवास गरेका थिय ।मानव अस्थित्वको ईतिहास हेर्दै […]