Abstract

Melkam Anteneh Alemu*

ABSTRACT

Every grower has at some point observed the effects of poor seed quality: slow germination, damping-off, poor stands, weak seedlings, and mixed or genetically contaminated lots. Because growers depend heavily on preventative/cultural approaches to promote crop health, vigorous seed can be viewed as the first line of defense against the challenges of cold soil, soil-borne pathogens, and other unfavorable conditions. Selecting appropriate varieties adapted to the area of production with disease and insect resistance, along with other desirable characteristics, is also fundamental to satisfactory crop seed performance and yield. In the past, many organic growers have been reluctant to use organic seed due to issues of availability and pricing. Different crop seeds quality have dissimilar tolerance level of management practices. Quality seed combine with different management practices are essential to improve the physical, chemical and biological properties of seed it control wastage reduce loss to maximize crop yield and profit per unit area. As long as growers can achieve higher profits, they are willing to use quality seed. The key is that the profit from using quality seed must offsets its higher cost. The only way to increase production is by increasing productivity per unit area of land.