Land shall be free of volunteer plants.

Field Standards

A. General Requirements

Isolation

• Isolation: Fields shall be isolated with following specified isolation distances.

Contaminants

Minimum distance (meters)

Foundation

Certified

Fields of other varieties

400

100

Fields of the same variety not conforming to varietal purity requirements for certification

B. Specific requirements

Maximum permitted (%)*

Off-types

0.020

1.0

**Objectionable weed plants

None

0.050

• Seed production is done once in a year during summer months.
• Green fodder should be harvested during first week of March and allowed for seed production in such a way that the peak period of flowering should coincide with summer.

• Treat the seeds with 600 g of Rhizobium and 600 g of Phosphobacteria before sowing.

• Seed rate 20 kg/ha
• Seed treatment Treat the seeds with 600 g of Azospirillum and 600g of Phosphobacteria or 1200g of Azophos.
• Spacing 25 cm x 10 cm
• Foliar application Spray Borax @150 ppm to increase the seed quality. Spray ZnSO 4 + Borax at 0.3% to improve pod and seed weight and also to increase the germination potential and vigour of seeds.
• Harvesting Hand pick the pods at maturity stage.

Seed Stadards n

Standards for each class

Pure seed (minimum)

98.0%

Inert matter (maximum)

2.0%

Other crop seeds (maximum)

10/kg

20/kg

Total Weed seeds (maximum)

5/kg

*Objectionable weed seeds (maximum)

Germination including hard seeds (minimum)

80%

Moisture (maximum)

10.0%

For vapour-proof containers (maximum)

7.0%