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Gender roles in Seed storage and management

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Title Gender roles in Seed storage and management
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Creator L. P. Sahoo
M. P. S. Arya
C. Patra
M. Prusty
A. Sahu
M. Sahoo
 
Subject ITK
seed storage
Begunia
Neem
green gram
arhar
 
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Gender involvement in seed production, processing, packaging and storage was
studied in five villages comprising two districts of coastal Orissa. Seed being the most vital
input both men and women played a crucial role in seed production and management.
However role of women was more spectacular in activities like harvesting, cleaning and
grading, packing and storage whereas men play important role in threshing and seed
treatment. Survey results indicated that though chemical treatment of grains and seeds were
common but women preferred to store seeds with non chemical indigenous methods like
mixing leaves of Vitex negundo, Azadirachta indica, Lantana camara and inert materials like
cow dung ash, charcoal, dried cow dung etc. were reported to be used in the locality for
storing green gram (Vigna mungo) and arhar (Cajanas cajan) seeds. The collected ITKs were
validated using experiments for comparing loss of viability of seeds treated in indigenous
methods, recommended chemical and untreated control after pretreatment and storing in a
clean and ventilated seed storage place. Results revealed that green gram seeds treated with
leaves of Vitex negundo and cow dung ash had 9.3% less loss in germination than the
recommended method (Treated with thiram @ 3 gm per Kg of seed). In Red gram (Cajanas
cajan) it was found that treatment of seeds with red earth and mustard oil was very effective.
The loss in germination was 19% and 20.9 % less than the untreated control respectively. In
all above cases germination percentage of seeds treated with ITKs were similar to chemical
treatment. So farm women can reliably use ITKs for storage of green gram and arhar seeds
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Date 2018-11-13T04:55:13Z
2018-11-13T04:55:13Z
2018
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/10612
 
Language English
 
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