Organic Seed : Traditional Varieties and Technologies (Reprint)

Contents Preface I Traditional varieties 1 RiceK Vanangamudi and R Revathi 2 CerealsK Vanangamudi and S Balavidhya 3 Pulses and oilseedsKVanangamudi and R Revathi 4 VegetablesK Vanangamudi and M Prabhu 5 Traditional varieties inclusion under notified varieties listAB Rafiulla II Technologies for organic seed 1 Organic agriculture an overviewV Sakthirama K Vanangamudi and Mallika Vanangamudi 2 General requirements for organic seed productionK Vanangamudi and J Padma 3 Technologies developed for organic seed productionK Vanangamudi and S Balavidhya 4 Indigenous presowing treatmentsK Vanangamudi and S Kavitha 5 Organic seed quality enhancement treatmentsP Tamilkumar and K Vanangamudi 6 Pest management in organic agricultureMR Srinivasan and Sharana Basava Reddy 7 Organic seed certification issuesA Karmugilan 8 Rice organic seed productionK Vanangamudi and S Kavitha 9 Cotton organic seed productionTV Karivaradaraaju and A Bharathi 10 Organic seed vs conventional seedP Srimathi 11 Organic seed marketingT Jayaraj 12 Traditional knowledge in seed storageA Selvakumari K Vanangamudi and R Vigneshwari 13 Organic seed storageP Srimathi K Malarkodi and S Sumathi III Technologies for organic and conventional seeds 1 Technologies for seed productionS Kalaivani and K Vanangamudi 2 Technologies for seed processingS Kalaivani and K Vanangamudi 3 Technologies for seed storageS Kalaivani and K Vanangamudi IV Farmers participatoty plant and seed conservation 1 Role of CSB in traditional seed conservationK Vanangamudi and R Revathi 2 Indigenous seed marketing though seed fairsK Vanangamudi and R Vigneshwari 3 Farmers participatory plant breedingK Vanangamudi and S Kavitha 4 Role of CSB in biodiversity conservationK Vanangamudi and G KarthikaThe production and supply of organic seed is the need of the hour to facilitate the organic Agriculture which ensures the production of the organic food products free from the toxic substances for better human health But also to conserve the soil and environmental health for well beings of the human life including the flora and faunaKeeping the importance of the organic agriculture the book on Organic Seed has been compiled which is first of its kind in India This book consists of four major parts Part I deals with the documentation of the indigenous varieties in cereals pulses oilseeds and vegetables In part II an overview of organic agriculture requirements and technologies for organic seed production with special reference to rice and cotton seed quality treatments certification marketing and storage of organic seed are discussed Part III includes the technologies for production processing and storage of seed Role of community seed bank seed fairs and farmers participatory plant breeding are included in the Part IV 350 pp.…