Advantages of Selecting Good Quality Seeds

• Reduce seed rate

• Good germination rate that reduces refilling of lost hills

• Good performance and uniform growth of rice plants that enables high yield

Good quality seeds could not be easily decided just by eye inspection. It is recommended to buy good quality paddy seeds from a reliable source that guarantee for free of pests and diseases, good germination rate and seed purity.

Apply salt water treatment method of paddy seeds to separate filled paddy seeds from unfilled grains and to control seed -born nematode diseases. By applying this method, about 50% of seed-born nematode diseases can be suppressed.