Seed Treatment – Process and Importance

One question that might creep up in your head is if treating the seeds with chemicals is necessary or not. So, think about it. How good will it be if you need not spend on herbicides or fungicides? How nice it will be if your seeds grow up to produce the harvest that you have been looking for? This is why seed treatments are necessary. Although you can try out processing the seeds yourself, yet, you need to have professional help while you are trying out the experiments

Importance of seed treatment

The importance of treating the seeds is huge in number. The first one is of course the fact that you will not need to use any herbicides or pesticides. Other than that, you can impart the qualities you require in the seeds. This however, will require the right mixture of the chemicals and hence, professional help might be required. Moreover, when you do the seed treatment, you will have better harvest as the crops will be disease resistant also.

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Advantages of seed treatment

When you are treating the seed with the essential nutrients, there are a number of advantages that you have. The first one is of course higher yield of products. On the other hand, you do have the opportunity to save your hard earned money as you do not need to spend on the pesticides and the herbicides. In addition to that, your crops will be free from diseases and thus, you will not need to pay for fertilizers.

Another advantage of the treated seeds is that they can be easily used to produce the desired result. For example, if you want certain traits to appear in a crop, all you need to do is look for the nutrient which will help the crop to have that desired effects.

Fungicide treatments

If you want to make your seeds resistant to fungicides, then treating the seed is best option. Treating your seeds with triticonazole and metalaxyl will help to control the fungal diseases in plants and at the same time will also increase the emergence rates of your seeds. This mixture will also help in the increase in growth of plants and hence can be used safely for a wide variety of seeds.

Other than the above mentioned mixture, you can also try out insecticide treatment and pesticide treatment. The main reason why these treatments are used on the seed is to prevent you from excessive use of pesticides and fungicides on the plant itself.

Hence, remembering the above discussion, it can be concluded that you can use seed treatment not only to kill pests and fungi but also to have higher yields of the product. Needless to say, you can also try out new products on your seeds but only if you know about its effects.

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