Today, due to population growth and food demand, fighting against obligation factors affect crops is turned to be a global movement to resist these factors in any possible ways. Water reducible, frequent droughts, especially in disadvantaged areas, soil salinity, pests and weeds, the need for high-yielding seeds and many other factors, have prompted researchers to fix such problems.
A few decades ago, farmers around the world followed their family culture. They have kept some amount of seeds for cultivating in the next year and due to lack of knowledge in the role of genetics and plant breeding, they keep using these methods. These kind of seeds had natural characteristics and they still show their family traits.
However, in recent decades, based on the progress in knowledge of plant breeding, researchers have attempted to strengthen some traits in plants and different products based on climate, water, soil and need of use in communities. The result of such activities is to obtain "Hybrid seeds», which is now used worldwide.
Hybrid seeds
In fact, Hybrid seed is refer to the first generation (F1) of the seed which is produced from confluence of two parents that are genetically different. In these figures, useful and qualified traits of both parents are combine and resulting a different phenomenon known as hybrid vigor or heterosis.
These seeds produce plants that could be more resistant to disease, and produce larger fruits and have easier methods to harvest. The genetic composition of seeds change drastically after planting them once. Seeds collected from hybrid plants are not suitable for cultivating next year and may not produce the original plants.
Currently, most strategic and important vegetables are reproduce by this method.
The identification and evaluation of qualified hybrid vegetable seeds:
Always using good seeds has been one of the concerns of the farmers. Hybrid seeds have some intimacy which help farmers to reach their aim. There is two ways to increase seeds function. Acreage increase and yield increase.
The main characteristics of hybrid seeds are the high level of function, suitable for different kind of climates, resistance to various diseases, high storage, shape, form and desire weight of the product.
Pezhvac seed by having cooperation with experts of Institute of vegetable Research of Horticulture science research Institute (HSRI) http://www.hsri.ir , by using qualitative and quantitative control experiments, hybrid seeds of vegetables which have desirable properties, with a high percentage and based on the world principles of control and seed certification have sorted and will prepare for using agricultural aspects.
Experts of Plant breeding in Pezhvac Seed Company and institute of vegetables, are choosing hybrid vegetable seeds based on classic and modern methods of plant breeding which classic method (Selection) and Hybridation are the most important ones.
Localization of identified hybrid vegetable seeds:
Scientist and experts in plant breeding are searching for those kind of seed which could endure environmental conditions and maintain their high performance and quality of function. For this reason, our experts in Pezhvac seed and institute of vegetables are searching for such seeds as well.
As a result, for finding suitable seeds for any weather with any planting conditions, experts will conduct several tests based on time and locations;
As first priority identified those seeds which shows same function and quality in different kinds of conditions and as second priority, find those special seeds for their time and direction conditions.
Supplying seeds for farmers:
To provide hybrid vegetable seeds by experts of Pezhvac Seed Company, our international group are started their correspondence to establish cooperation with reputable and well-known European and other companies from all around the world, so far they could offer qualified and assured hybrid seeds for farmers.
The main purpose of Pezhvac Seed Co. is to provide special hybrid vegetable seed which the foreign party could provide these kind of seeds with high physical and genetical purity and also desirable and compatible quality for farmer’s conditions. Thus, international group of Pezhvac Seed Co. will scrutinize between famous hybrid seed breeder brands in the first point which have qualified global certification of producing hybrid seeds. In the second step, we provide various hybrid seeds with special cultivating conditions and resistant to biotic and abiotic stress.
Hybrid vegetable seeds marketing
Pezhvac Seed Co. has a close cooperation with Agricultural Support Services Co. (http://www.assc.ir )for achieving farmer’s database. Based on the cooperation between these two parties and farmer’s needs, identified and produced hybrid vegetable seeds will establish in the right time. This supply will be in the required amount based on the achieved information from the method of cultivating. It should be mentioned that required accommodation of a farmer reaches high function and helps economical system of the country in agricultural markets of abovementioned restricts.
Pezhvac Seed Co. and ASSC will use the predicted politics for reaching to the high levels of requirements based on important aspects of agricultural ingredients.
Standardization and suitable roles for producing, supplying and planting hybrid vegetable seed and following the environmental conditions in import and also producing ingredients. This politics includes managing in order to supplying enough, in time with logical price for several required seeds which is furthered by reaching to the need quality and using scientific suggestions in providing various kinds hybrid seeds. `
At the end, Pezhvac seed experts are trying to provide the main agricultural ingredients for farmers to reach the highest level of demands and improving agriculture in the region.