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ABOUT THE BOOK

The history of agricultural progress from the early days of man has been the history of seeds of new crops and crop varieties brought under cultivation. In the early days it was achieved through the cultivation of indigenous but useful plants and those taken through introductions. Later through the well known techniques of selection, hybridization, mutation, polyploidization and plant biotechnology the scientists made available many new and better varieties. However, to the farmer all this scientific research would be of little value unless  one  gets seeds, which are genetically pure, high germination percentage and vigour, high purity, sound health etc., when the farmers do not get seeds possessing these qualities the yields they obtain may not be as expected. The pace of progress in seed production therefore, will largely depend upon the speed with which we are able to multiply and market good quality seeds of high yielding varieties.

Looking to the importance of seed the 5^th dean’s Committee of ICAR has introduces a course on Principles of Seed Technology at UG level in all SAUs and Agricultural Colleges of India. Present book is an effort to provide all the information relevant to this course in a single book in simple language to be easily accessible for UG students. This book includes chapters on importance & scope of seed technology, genetic purity of seeds, seed quality, classes of seed, seed production technology for important crops, seed act, seed control order, detection of genetically modified crops, seed testing, processing, packaging, treatment, storage marketing besides the role of WTO.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LAL (Somani) is Retired Director Resident Instructions, MPUAT, Udaipur. He has over 400 research and technical articles to his credit. He has authored/edited over 145 scholarly books in various field of agriculture. Prof. Somani has been honored with several academic excellence awards for his outstanding achievements.