Vegetable Seed Production

Abstract Unlike field crops where the cultural practices of raising seed are mostly similar to commercial crops, in case vegetables, not only grown for a much longer duration than raised vegetable purpose, they often also have critical requirements photoperiods, temperatures, humidity and precipitation. Moreover, compared most seeds considered high value low volume, hence these require specific care pre-harvest stages, i.e. isolation roguing, during harvesting extraction, post-harvest operations such as drying, processing, packaging storage. Due their vast diversity growth pattern, induction flowering pollination behaviour, production procedures need be followed each group, e.g. cole cucurbits, leafy root solanaceous, malvaceous etc. General principles standard provided this chapter.