Vol. 7, Issue 4 (2019)
To study the seed health status of farmers’ saved seed of paddy in respect to storage insect pests
Author(s): Mohit Gupta, RB Singh, Satya prakash, Purushosttam and Dheeraj Katiyar
Abstract: Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the major food crops of the world. Due to lack of awareness, the farmer’s do not distinguish the seed grain and hence the quality of farmers saved seed remains below standard. One hundred farmers’s saved seed samples were randomly collected from different villages of five districts in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Ninety eight percent paddy seed samples were infested with Sitotroga cerealella Oliv. The presence of other insects i.e. Sitophilus oryzae L. and Rhyzopertha dominica Fab. were also observed in samples of paddy seed. The maximum seed moisture content (12.10 %) was recorded in the samples of Bahraich district and minimum seed moisture content (11.30 %) in samples of Sultanpur district. The maximum insect infestation (3.08 %) was recorded in samples of district Bahraich and the minimum (1.88 %) sample was infested in Sultanpur district. The maximum germination (80.08 %) was noticed in seed sample of Sultanpur district and the minimum (60.75 %) in sample of Bahraich district. However, the maximum 1540 and minimum 996 seed vigour index were observed in Sultanpur and Bahraich seed samples of paddy, respectively.
The keeping above in view, overall average performance of seed samples collected different villages of five districts were 11.61 % seed moisture content, 2.27 % seed damaged, 73.19 % seed germination and 1276 seed vigour index.
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Mohit Gupta, RB Singh, Satya prakash, Purushosttam, Dheeraj Katiyar. To study the seed health status of farmers’ saved seed of paddy in respect to storage insect pests. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(4):1128-1130.
