Selection of healthy paddy seeds and method of seed treatment

Before sowing paddy, make sure that the seeds are healthy or not. If the seeds are healthy and disease free, only then there will be a good crop. Healthy seeds should be treated before planting in nursery. Treated seeds are less prone to diseases and pests. Along with this, the chances of rotting or rotting of the seeds are also reduced.

Process of selection of healthy seeds

• First of all, you have to make a solution by mixing 2 kg of common salt in 20 liters of water.

• Add 30 kg of seeds to this solution and mix it well.

• By this process healthy seeds, being heavy, settle down in the salt solution and unhealthy or hollow seeds being lighter float to the top.

• Now separate the healthy seeds and wash them thoroughly with clean water three to four times and dry them in the shade.

seed treatment method

• To treat the seeds, make a solution by mixing 10 grams of Bovistine and 2.5 grams of Posamycin or 2.5 grams of Agrimycin or 1 gram of Streptocyclin in 10 liters of water.

• Soak healthy seeds in this solution for 24 hours.

• For 20 kg of seeds, 25 liters of solution is required.

• The seeds treated in this way are less prone to diseases like root rot disease, leaf blight disease, gusts etc.

• About 3 grams of Bavistin fungicide mixed with water is also treated by adding 1 kg of seed to it.

• Apart from this, you can also treat the washed seeds by adding fungicide powder.