Seed is an important and basic input
for achieving higher crop yield and increasing a country's agricultural
economy. Thus it is very important to maintain seed quality by
understanding the right mechanism. Seed markets are generally built
around hybrid varieties, which do not reproduce and so force farmers to
purchase new seeds every season. Rice, however, is a self-pollinating
crop, making hybrid rice seed production costly and difficult, and
nearly all rice in Asia is still grown with farmer-saved seeds.
We can study this category under the following heads :
