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Unit III
Methods and techniques of varietal seed production in major pulses – black gram,
green gram, cowpea, chickpea, horse gram, soybean and lentil – varietal and hybrid
seed production in red gram.
Unit IV
Methods and techniques of seed production in major oil seed crops – groundnut, sesame
– varietal and hybrid seed production in sunflower, castor and mustard; varietal
seed production in minor oilseed crops (safflower, linseed, niger) – varietal and hybrid
seed production in cotton – varietal seed production in jute.
Unit V
Seed production planning for varieties and hybrids of major crops; participatory
seed production – seed hubs, seed village concept and community seed bank.
VII. Practical
• Seed selection – quality of seed on field establishment;
• Sowing and nursery management techniques;
• Planting – age of seedling on crop establishment – rice and pearl millet;
• Isolation distance and border rows in hybrid seed production field – space and
barrier isolation; modifying isolation based on border rows in maize;
• Planting design for hybrid seed production – rice, maize, pearl millet, cotton, red
gram, sunflower;
• Practicing breeding tools for hybrid seed production – detasseling – emasculation
and dusting;
• Study on methods of achieving synchronization – rice, bajra, sunflower;
• Practicing supplementary pollination – rice and sunflower;
• Study on foliar nutrition and influence on seed yield;
• Practicing roguing operation – identification of off-types, pollen shedders, shedding
tassels, partials, selfed bolls;
• Pre and post harvest sanitation operations – cereals, millets and pulses;
• Estimation of shattering and shattering loss; study on insitu germination and
loss;
• Visit to seed production fields;
• Visit to seed industry;
• Seed production planning and economics of seed production – varieties;
• Seed production planning and economics of seed production – hybrids.

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