Forage seed production

This manual has been prepared for use by trainees and trainers of forage seed production. It is intended as a practical guide to cover some of the basic principles of production of quality forage seeds. The manual is divided into five chapters. The first chapter outlines field multiplication practic...

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Autor principal: International Livestock Centre for Africa
Formato: Training Material
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Livestock Centre for Africa 1994
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/4479
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description This manual has been prepared for use by trainees and trainers of forage seed production. It is intended as a practical guide to cover some of the basic principles of production of quality forage seeds. The manual is divided into five chapters. The first chapter outlines field multiplication practices including production systems, site selection, matching the forage to the site, the type of forage plant, crop establishment, crop management, and seed harvesting. The second chapter is on post-harvest seed conditioning. This involves threshing, winnowing, drying, cleaning, packaging and storage. The third chapter discusses seed quality control concepts with particular reference to assurance, testing, sampling, moisture content determination, purity analysis, germination testing, viability testing and seed certification and legislation. The fourth chapter deals with seed marketing while the fifth chapter highlights the economics of forage seed production.
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spelling CGSpace44792025-11-04T16:50:20Z Forage seed production International Livestock Centre for Africa seed production feed crops production systems pastures plant establishment seed harvesting drying threshing This manual has been prepared for use by trainees and trainers of forage seed production. It is intended as a practical guide to cover some of the basic principles of production of quality forage seeds. The manual is divided into five chapters. The first chapter outlines field multiplication practices including production systems, site selection, matching the forage to the site, the type of forage plant, crop establishment, crop management, and seed harvesting. The second chapter is on post-harvest seed conditioning. This involves threshing, winnowing, drying, cleaning, packaging and storage. The third chapter discusses seed quality control concepts with particular reference to assurance, testing, sampling, moisture content determination, purity analysis, germination testing, viability testing and seed certification and legislation. The fourth chapter deals with seed marketing while the fifth chapter highlights the economics of forage seed production. 1994 2011-07-19T06:43:39Z 2011-07-19T06:43:39Z Training Material https://hdl.handle.net/10568/4479 en Open Access application/pdf International Livestock Centre for Africa
spellingShingle seed production
feed crops
production systems
pastures
plant establishment
seed harvesting
drying
threshing
International Livestock Centre for Africa
Forage seed production
title Forage seed production
title_full Forage seed production
title_fullStr Forage seed production
title_full_unstemmed Forage seed production
title_short Forage seed production
title_sort forage seed production
topic seed production
feed crops
production systems
pastures
plant establishment
seed harvesting
drying
threshing
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/4479
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