ReviewSeed technology and its role in reducing water use

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Seed and Plant Certification and Registration Institute

Abstract

Seed quality technology has many improvements in recent decades and present new methods and equipment in seed processing, coating, healthing, priming, breeding and … yearly. The target of this paper is a brief viewpoint to the role of these technologies in increase productivity and reduce consumption of water. Different angles of this subject has been paid such as effect on increase yield, prevent of yield and production decrease, reduce water consumption and seed rate reduction. The effect of different separating factors on yield production and reduce water consumption is not easily executable and needs many accurate research. For clarification the subject based on available scattered research and statistics we approximately calculate and results reveled that access to saving water consumption is feasible by seed technology.

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