Q1-Module 4
Q1-Module 4
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Quarter 1 – Module 4
Agri-Crop Production NCII
Agri-Crop Production NCII: Grade 11
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Quarter 1-Module 4: Handle seeds / Planting materials
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Agri-crop Production
NCII
Quarter 1 – Module 4
Performing Nursery Operations (PNO)
Introductory Message
The module enables learner to engage into independent learning and guided activities
at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help learners acquire the needed
21st century skills while taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.
As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module. You
also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their own
learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as they do the
tasks included in the module.
This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for
guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be producing outputs
as you process the contents of the learning resource while being an active learner.
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This module has parts and icons that you need to know.
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This part gives the generalization of the lesson.
It somehow presents the important ideas of the
What I Have Learned
lesson presented in the module.
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Introduction
Agriculturists say that the most important factor are the following : How to handle
seeds and planting materials .
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3.2.Select quality seeds according to prescribed characteristics
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What II Know
What Know
Directions: Read each item carefully. In this module you will answer through multiple
choice. Do this in a separate sheet of paper.
Remember, if you got perfect score skip this module however if you got 1 or
more mistakes continue this module.
1.It is a fertilized and ripened ovule which may develop into a plant by germination.
2. It is the possession of seed with required genetic and physical purity that is accompanied
with physiological soundness and health status.
3. It is the cleanliness of seed from other seeds, debris, inert matter, diseased seed and insect
damaged seed.
4.It is the true to type nature of the seed. i.e., the seedling / plant / tree from the seed should
resemble its mother in all aspects.
6. health status of seed is nothing but the absence of insect infestation and fungal infection,
in or on the seed.
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7. Which of the following is not true about quality seed.
a. Seed quality is the possession of seed with required genetic purity that is
accompanied with physiological soundness and health status.
b. Seed quality is the possession of seed with required genetic and physical purity
that is accompanied with physiological soundness and health status.
c. Seed quality is the possession of seed with required physical purity that is
accompanied with physiological soundness and health status.
d. Seed quality is the possession of seed with required size and weight.
8. Which of the following is true about physical quality of a seed .
a. Physical quality refers to the cleanliness of seed from other seeds, debris, inert matter,
diseased seed and insect damaged seed.
b. Physical quality refers to type nature of the seed. i.e., the seedling / plant / tree from
the seed should resemble its mother in all aspects.
c. Physical quality refers to the absence of insect infestation and fungal infection, in or
on the seed.
a. It is the true to type nature of the seed. i.e., the seedling / plant / tree from the seed
should resemble its mother in all aspect
b. It is the possession of seed with required physical purity that is accompanied with
physiological soundness and health status.
d. It is nothing but the absence of insect infestation and fungal infection, in or on the seed.
a. It is nothing but the absence of insect infestation and fungal infection, in or on the seed.
b. Health status of seed is nothing but the absence of insect infestation and fungal infection,
in or on the seed.
d. It is the seedling / plant / tree from the seed should resemble its mother in all aspects.
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12. Which of the following does belong to the seed quality?
13. Which of the following does not belong to the seed quality?
14. Which of the following does not belong to the importance of quality seed ?
15. Quality seedlings produced will be more vigourous, fast growing and can resist from
what ?
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What’s In
Activity 1. What are some examples of farm hygiene that has to be done by every farmers?
What’s New
Guide questions:
1.What are the planting materials according to prescribed characteristics?
2. What are the prescribed characteristics of a quality seed ?
3.What are those values that we can get in having those planting materials according
to quality seeds and prescribed characteristics ?
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What is it
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Some of the disadvantages are:
Seed growing is an exacting work.
It competes with the normal work in the nursery.
It calls for knowledge of the principles of plant breeding.
It calls for keen observation. Before seeds are sown or planted in the field they must be
tested to determine if these are viable, clean, true-to-type, disease free, and others. By doing
such, the grower will not entail losses in agricultural inputs, time, and energy. Seed testing is
the operation involved to determine whether or not the seeds are viable, clean, true-to-type,
and to find out the percentage of germination of seeds. This is performed to find out the
amount of seeds/seedlings to plant in a given area. In that case, sowing the right amount of
seeds will economize labor and expenses in re-planting.
Seed Quality
Seed of food crops including edible oil seeds and seeds of fruits & vegetables.
Cotton seeds
Seeds of cattle fodder
Jute seeds
Seedlings, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cuttings, all types of grafts and other
vegetatively propagated material for food crops (or) cattle fodder
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It will respond well to added fertilizer and other inputs.
Good quality seeds of improved varieties ensures higher yield atleast 10 – 12 % .
Seed quality is the possession of seed with required genetic and physical purity that
is accompanied with physiological soundness and health status. The major seed
quality characters are summarized as below.
1. Physical Quality: It is the cleanliness of seed from other seeds, debris, inert
matter, diseased seed and insect damaged seed. The seed with physical quality
should have uniform size, weight, and colour and should be free from stones,
debris, and dust, leafs, twigs, stems, flowers, fruit well without other crop seeds
and inert material. It also should be devoid of shriveled, diseased mottled,
moulded, discoloured, damaged and empty seeds. The seed should be easily
identifiable as a species of specific category of specific species. Lack of this
quality character will indirectly influence the field establishment and planting
value of seed. This quality character could be obtained with seed lots by proper
cleaning and grading of seed (processing) after collection and before sowing /
storage.
2. Genetic purity: It is the true to type nature of the seed. i.e., the seedling / plant /
tree from the seed should resemble its mother in all aspects. This quality
character is important for achieving the desired goal of raising the crop either
yield or for resistance or for desired quality factors.
3. Physiological Quality: It is the actual expression of seed in further generation /
multiplication. Physiological quality characters of seed comprises of seed
germination and seed vigour. The liveliness of a seed is known as viability. The
extent of liveliness for production of good seedling or the ability of seed for
production of seedling with normal root and shoot under favorable condition is
known as germinability.
4. Seed vigour is the energy or stamina of the seed in producing elite seedling. It is
the sum total of all seed attributes that enables its regeneration of under any
given conditions. Seed vigour determines the level of performance of seed or seed
lot during germination and seedling emergence. Seed which perform well at sowing
are termed as quality seed and based on the degree of performance in production of
elite seedling it is classified as high, medium and low vigour seed.
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The difference in seed vigour is the differential manifestation of the deteriorative
process occurring in the seed before the ultimate loss of ability to germinate.
Difference in seed vigour will be expressed in rate of emergence, uniformity of
emergence and loss of seed germination. Hence it is understood that all viable
seeds need not be germinable but all germinable seed will be viable. Similarly all
vigourous seeds will be germinable but all germinable seed need not be
vigourous. Physiological quality of seed could be achieved through proper
selection of seed (matured seed) used for sowing and by caring for quality
characters during extraction, drying and storage. Seed with good vigour is
preferable for raising a good plantation as the fruits, the economic come out are
to be realized after several years. Hence selection of seed based on seed vigour
is important for raising perfect finalize plantation.
5 Seed Health - Health status of seed is nothing but the absence of insect
infestation and fungal infection, in or on the seed. Seed should not be
infected with fungi or infested with insect pests as these will reduce the
physiological quality of the seed and also the physical quality of the seed
in long term storage. The health status of seed also includes the
deterioration status of seed which also expressed through low vigour
status of seed. The health status of seed influences the seed quality
characters directly and warrants their soundness in seed for the
production of elite seedlings at nursery / field.
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Higher physical purity for certification
o Maize , Bhendi - 99%
o All crops ( most) - 98%
o Carrot - 95%
o Sesame, soybean & jute - 97 %
o Ground nut - 96 %
Possession of good shape, size, colour, etc., according to specifications of variety
Higher physical soundness and weight
Higher germination ( 90 to 35 % depending on the crop)
Higher physiological vigour and stamina
Higher storage capacity
Free from other crop seeds ( Expressed in number /kg) - Other crop seeds are the
plants of cultivated crops found in the seed field and whose seed are so similar to
crop seed that is difficult to separate them economically by mechanical means.
Eg. Mixtures of Wheat, oats seeds in barley.
It should be free from objectionable weed seeds -These are plants of weed
species which are harmful in one or more of the following ways.
o The size and shape of their seeds are so similar to that of the crop seed
that is difficult to remove their seed economically by mechanical means.
o Their growth habit is detrimental to the growing seed crop due to
competing effect.
o Their plant parts are poisonous or injurious to human and animal beings
o They serve as alternate hosts for crop pests and diseases.
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It should be free from designated diseases - It refers to the diseases specified for
the certification of seeds and for which certification standards are to be met with
. These diseases would cause contamination, when they are present in the seed
field or with in the specified isolation distance ( eg. loose smut of wheat). For this
the the certification distance has been prescribed as 180 meters.
Cucurbits Mosaic
Cowpea Anthracnose
It should have optimum moisture content for storage - Long term storage - 6 - 8
% , Short term storage - 10 - 13%
It should have high market value
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Quality Characteristics
Trueness to variety; the presence of inert matter, seed of other crops, or weed seed;
germination percentage; vigor; appearance; and freedom from disease are important aspects
of seed quality. High-quality seed lots should meet minimum standards for each of these
characteristics.
What’s More
Activity 1:
Activity 2:
1 .In your own idea how important are planting materials according to prescribed
characteristics?
Activity 3: Skill-Analysis
Direction :Read and understand the questions carefully . Write your answers on your
notebook.
Activity 4:
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What I Have Learned
Activity: Hear Me
Direction: In the box, you are going to state your learnings on what you have
gained from this topic. Do not forget to write your answer in a separate sheet of
paper.
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I have learned that
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The importance of
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What I Can Do
Activity: Be With Me
Directions: Choose one activity as your final output that applies to you:
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Assessment
a. It is the true to type nature of the seed. i.e., the seedling / plant / tree from the seed
should resemble its mother in all aspects.
b. It is the possession of seed with required physical purity that is accompanied with
physiological soundness and health status.
d. It is nothing but the absence of insect infestation and fungal infection, in or on the seed.
a. It is nothing but the absence of insect infestation and fungal infection, in or on the seed.
b. Health status of seed is nothing but the absence of insect infestation and fungal infection,
in or on the seed.
d. It is the seedling / plant / tree from the seed should resemble its mother in all aspects.
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5. Which of the following does not belong to the seed quality?
6. Which of the following does not belong to the importance of quality seed ?
7. Quality seedlings produced will be more vigourous, fast growing and can resist from what?
8. A seed is a fertilized and ripened ovule which may develop into a plant by germination.
9. It is the possession of seed with required genetic and physical purity that is
accompanied with physiological soundness and health status.
10. It is the cleanliness of seed from other seeds, debris, inert matter, diseased seed and
insect damaged seed.
11.It is the true to type nature of the seed. i.e., the seedling / plant / tree from the seed should
resemble its mother in all aspects.
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13. It is the health status of seed is nothing but the absence of insect infestation and fungal
infection, in or on the seed.
a. Seed quality is the possession of seed with required genetic purity that is
accompanied with physiological soundness and health status.
b. Seed quality is the possession of seed with required genetic and physical purity
that is accompanied with physiological soundness and health status.
c. Seed quality is the possession of seed with required physical purity that is
accompanied with physiological soundness and health status.
d. Seed quality is the possession of seed with required size and weight.
a.Physical quality refers to the cleanliness of seed from other seeds, debris, inert
matter, diseased seed and insect damaged seed.
b. Physical quality refers to type nature of the seed. i.e., the seedling / plant / tree
from the seed should resemble its mother in all aspects.
c. Physical quality refers to the absence of insect infestation and fungal infection,
in or on the seed.
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Additional Activities
Activity 1
Directions : Read the qauestions carefully and answer this in your paper.
Activity 2
1.What are the five major seed quality ?
Activity 3
1.What are the characteristics of a good quality seed ?
Activity 4
1.Why is it important for a farmer to consider the major seed quality characters ?
Activity 5
1.Give atleast five importance of quality seed .
Activity 6
1.Define what is physical quality in this leeson ?
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Answer Key
Post Test
15.a 14.b 13.a 12.d 11.a
Additional Activities :
Activity 1
1. More seeds will merge ,therefore less seed is needed , which saves
money.
2. Seedlings from high quality seeds will be strong and produce uniform
plants.
3. Plants will grow faster shortening the time from planting to harvest.
Activity 2
1. Genetic purity
2. Physical Quality
3. Physiological Quality
4. Seed vigour
5. Seed Health
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Activity 3
The Characteristics of a Good Quality Seed :
Activity 4 - ESSAY
Activity 5
1.Five Importance of Quality Seed :
Activity 6
Physical Quality: It is the cleanliness of seed from other seeds, debris, inert matter,
diseased seed and insect damaged seed. The seed with physical quality should have
uniform size, weight, and colour and should be free from stones, debris, and dust, leafs,
twigs, stems, flowers, fruit well without other crop seeds and inert material. It also
should be devoid of shriveled, diseased mottled, moulded, discoloured, damaged and
empty seeds. The seed should be easily identifiable as a species of specific category of
specific species. Lack of this quality character will indirectly influence the field
establishment and planting value of seed. This quality character could be obtained with
seed lots by proper cleaning and grading of seed (processing) after collection and before
sowing / storage.
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References
http://www.depedbataan.com/resources/9/k_to_12_crop_production_learning_
modules.pdf
https://vikaspedia.in/agriculture/agri-inputs/seeds/seed-quality
https://www.slideshare.net/cobejaypadigos/agri-crop-grade-10-lm
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