Effect of seed storage, and packaging in vegetables: A review

Abstract

Seed is one of the basic inputs to upsurge the market of any agricultural crop. Good storage conditions and packaging material are the foremost basic requirements to maintain the seed's quality, vigor, and viability. Seed deterioration declines the quality of seed material mostly when stored under unfavorable environmental conditions, due to which the annual losses in horticultural crops seed recorded up to more than 25 percent. Seed storage conditions, treatment, and packaging plays an important role in extending the shelf life of seeds by maintaining the quality attributes. Seed germination, viability, and vigor depend upon the kind of packaging material, storage, and storage duration. Several different kinds of packaging materials are used to enhance the seed quality such as air-tight glass containers, aluminum foil pouches aluminum laminated bags, cotton bags, tin containers, and super-rage bags could be used and performed with significant results for seed storage. This review paper has been reviewed to know the various effects of storage and packaging material on seed germination, viability, and vigor indexing particularly on vegetable crops namely tomato, brinjal, chili, leguminous crops, okra, onion, radish, and cucumber respectively.