The
success of Seed Company depends on its product
quality. Quality is the first and unchanging
principle for all the departments of our
organization. Some of the highlights of our
achievements in quality control activities are:
The Hybrid seeds
received from the production sector is subjected
to seed processing. Seed processing involves all
the steps which makes the harvested seed ready
for marketing namely drying, cleaning and size
grading, testing, treating, coating etc.
SEED DRYING:
Seeds are dried to a safe
moisture limit by sun drying and forced air
drying in order to maintain the viability and
vigour for a very long time.
SEED CLEANING
AND SIZE GRADING: The
Organization has got separate processing unit in
an area of 3,600sq.ft. equipped with different
types of machines. The graders are used to
separate the seeds according to the size, which
includes laboratory model grader. The gravity
separators are used to separate the seeds based
on the density. Some times the seeds are
separated with the help of cylindrical separator
to maintain the uniform shape and size for few
flower crops. The seed blower is used to separate
heavy and light fractions for small sized and
other exotic flower seeds. The seed brushing
machine is used to remove the hairiness of the
seeds. By this way the undesirable fractions
namely inert matter, weed seeds, other crop
seeds, light and chaffy seeds are removed from
the desirable seed lots.
SEED TESTING: This forms the hub of quality control
activities. Seed is tested for moisture content,
physical purity, germination, genetic purity and
seed health.
1. Moisture
test: As moisture influences the retention of
viability and appearance of seed, it is very important
to test the moisture content of the seed before
packing. The moisture content is found out with
the help of non-destructive instant moisture
meter and expressed in terms of percentage.
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