Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2019)
Studies on pre-germinated seeds for designing metering mechanism of power operated paddy seeder
Author(s): UK Dhruw, AK Verma and Aditya Sirmour
Abstract: Rice is one of the most important crops in India with a total area of 44 million ha and a production of 110 million tonnes. The physical properties was studied for dry, 1-day soaked with 12h, 24h, 36h, 48h germination condition of paddy, to design different seed metering mechanism. Pre-germinated paddy seeding in wet condition is often recommended as an alternative to manual transplanting. However, no information is available on the influence of the level of pre-germination on crop growth parameters. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the effect of the incubation period of pre-germinated paddy seed on the plant population, crop growth and yield. Plant population, crop growth and yield were higher for the pre-germinated seed as compared to dry and water soaked seed. The incubation period 36 h and sprout length of 2-5 mm was observed to be optimum for maximum plant population and grain yield.
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UK Dhruw, AK Verma, Aditya Sirmour. Studies on pre-germinated seeds for designing metering mechanism of power operated paddy seeder. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(3):2224-2227.
