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Rice Quality

 

     

The characteristics of seed quality, its importance and how to measure it.

  

Understand that there are physical characteristics used to measure the quality of paddy rice.

  

 

Seed quality are all  factors that determine the seed's performance

What is seed quality?

 

Seed quality is like all factors together that contribute to seed performance. It depends on the conditions that the mother plant had during growth, harvesting, processing, storage and planting.  

 

Temperature, nutrients and other environmental factors also affect seed development and influence seed quality.

 

Why is seed quality important?

 

Good quality seed can increase yields by 5-20%.

 

 

 

 

 

Measuring the quality of seed

How to measure seed quality?

 

Usually the following characteristics are measured:

 

  1. Varietal purity

  2. Other varieties

  3. Weed and other crop seeds

  4. Inert material

  5. Red rice

  6. Germination

  7. Moisture content

(click on the icon to see a fact sheet on "Measuring moisture content")

click here to go to the course on seed quality

 

To learn:

 

  1. more about these characteristics that determine the quality of seed

  2. to learn how to measure these characteristics,

 

please click on the icon on the right.

 

This icon leads you to a small course about seed quality.

 

Next lesson

This was the last lesson of the module on quality. Up next is a small quiz. After that comes the course overview.

  

 

  
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