Organic Seed : Traditional Varieties and Technologies

Contents: Preface. I. Traditional varieties: 1. Rice/K. Vanangamudi and R. Revathi. 2. Cereals/K. Vanangamudi and S. Balavidhya. 3. Pulses and oilseeds/K.Vanangamudi and R. Revathi. 4. Vegetables/K. Vanangamudi and M. Prabhu. 5. Traditional varieties: inclusion under notified varieties list/A.B. Rafiulla. II. Technologies for organic seed: 1. Organic agriculture an overview/V. Sakthirama, K. Vanangamudi and Mallika Vanangamudi. 2. General requirements for organic seed production/K. Vanangamudi and J. Padma. 3. Technologies developed for organic seed production/K. Vanangamudi and S. Balavidhya. 4. Indigenous presowing treatments/K. Vanangamudi and S. Kavitha. 5. Organic seed quality enhancement treatments/P. Tamilkumar and K. Vanangamudi. 6. Pest management in organic agriculture/M.R. Srinivasan and Sharana Basava Reddy. 7. Organic seed certification: issues/A. Karmugilan. 8. Rice organic seed production/K. Vanangamudi and S. Kavitha. 9. Cotton organic seed production/T.V. Karivaradaraaju and A. Bharathi. 10. Organic seed vs conventional seed/P. Srimathi. 11. Organic seed marketing/T. Jayaraj. 12. Traditional knowledge in seed storage/A. Selvakumari, K. Vanangamudi and R. Vigneshwari. 13. Organic seed storage/P. Srimathi, K. Malarkodi and S. Sumathi. III. Technologies for organic and conventional seeds: 1. Technologies for seed production/S. Kalaivani and K. Vanangamudi. 2. Technologies for seed processing/S. Kalaivani and K. Vanangamudi. 3. Technologies for seed storage/S. Kalaivani and K. Vanangamudi. IV. Farmers participatoty plant and seed conservation: 1. Role of CSB in traditional seed conservation/K. Vanangamudi and R. Revathi. 2. Indigenous seed marketing though seed fairs/K. Vanangamudi and R. Vigneshwari. 3. Farmers participatory plant breeding/K. Vanangamudi and S. Kavitha. 4. Role of CSB in biodiversity conservation/K. Vanangamudi and G. Karthika.

The 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 fauna.

Keeping 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.