Why BNS is purer then the rest of seed classes
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Explanation:
Seeds are basic and critical input for enhancing agricultural production and productivity.
The seeds which seeds companies sell in the market and our farmers grow are commonly “certified seeds”. The certification of seeds is a legally sanctioned system for quality control of seeds that are used to cultivate crops. The certified seeds are grown under stringent production requirements and they have improved traits such as better yield, pest resistance, drought tolerance, herbicide tolerance etc. The certified seeds are outcome of few years of research and development to get these improved traits. This R&D is done on their parent plants.
On this basis, there are five different categories viz. Nucleus Seeds, Breeder’s Seeds, Foundation Seeds, Registered Seeds and finally certified seeds. The Offspring of breeder seeds is foundation seeds to registered seeds to certified seeds.
Further, each of the breeders, foundation, registered and certified seeds are certified and labelled with a different colour tag as per Section 5 of the Seeds Act, 1966. Thus, they are also called as Labelled Seed. The Breeder seeds have golden yellow tag, Foundation seeds have white tag, registered seeds have opal blue tag and certified seeds have green tag. This is shown by below graphics