What are breeder’s seeds?
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Seeds are basic and critical input f enhancing agricultural production a productivity.
The seeds which seeds companies sell in t market and our farmers grow are common “certified seeds”. The certification seeds is a legally sanctioned system f quality control of seeds that are used cultivate crops. The certified seeds a grown under stringent producti requirements and they have improv traits such as better yield, pest resistanc drought tolerance, herbicide tolerance et The certified seeds are outcome of f years of research and development to g these improved traits. This R&D is done their parent plants.
On this basis, there are five differe categories viz. Nucleus Seeds, Breeder Seeds, Foundation Seeds, Registered See and finally certified seeds. The Offspri of breeder seeds is foundation seeds registered seeds to certified seeds.
Further, each of the breeders, foundatio registered and certified seeds a certified and labelled with a differe colour tag as per Section 5 of the See Act, 1966. Thus, they are also called Labelled Seed. The Breeder seeds ha golden yellow tag, Foundation seeds ha white tag, registered seeds have opal bl tag and certified seeds have green ta This is shown by below graphics.