Question: Isolation distance in cotton Foundation seed? (IBPS AFO 2014)
Options:
200 m
50 m
30 m
75 m
✅Explanation: In India, a minimum isolation distance of fifty meters for foundation seed class and thirty meters for certified seed class production from fields of other varieties of the same species,
🔑Key Points:
• Foundation seed:
– Known as Mother seedÂ
– Source of Registered and Certified seed classes.
– Genetic purity- 99.9%
– Physical purity- 98%
– It is mainly produced by National Seeds Corporations.
– Denoted by White tag.