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QUALITY OF VEGETABLE SEEDS AS INFLUENCED BY VARIOUS SOURCES OF COLLECTION (Pages : 1 - 6)
H. BANU, N. AKTER, B.C. HALDER , M.A. KABIR, M.S. ISLAM AND M.M. ALIAn experiment was conducted at the Department of Horticulture, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur from May to June 2017 to evaluate the qualities of different vegetable seeds from various sources. The experiment was comprised five sources of crop seeds viz., Supreme Seed Company (T1), seeds produced by Krishi Banijjo Prothisthan (T2), seeds of Metal Agro Limited (T3), seeds of BRAC Seed Enterprise (T4) and seeds of local seed traders (T5), and three crops: C1 (Radish), C2 (Country bean) and C3 (Brinjal) respectively. The experiment was laid out in the Completely Randomized Design with three replications. The parameters studied were percent moisture content, percent analytical purity, percent germination, percent of normal and abnormal seedling of three crops and seedling vigour in terms of root and shoot length, number of secondary roots, fresh and dry weight of shoot and roots. The result revealed that the maximum purity (95.67%), germination (96.67%) was found in BRAC Country bean seed and minimum moisture (6.37%) was found in Supreme Country bean seed. The highest shoot length, fresh weight of shoot and number of secondary roots per seedling were found in the combination of BRAC Country bean seeds. The longest root and shoot were found in the combination of seeds of Supreme with Country bean. Local Brinjal seeds performed least in case of shoot length, root length, fresh and dry weight of shoot. The study revealed that local seed traders should be trained – up about various aspects of quality vegetable seed production and marketing. Parallel to this, seed certification activities must be strengthened to assure the qualities of different vegetable seeds too.Download