Bhindi / okra seeds

Buying seed in Coimbatore — what to check before you pay

Choose the variety before you choose the shop: your block Agricultural Officer, the KVK and the state seed corporation know which duration suits your sowing date, your water and your soil card, and that advice costs nothing. Once you know the variety, the packet has to prove itself — under the Seeds Act every bag carries a certification tag whose colour tells you the class, plus a lot number, a germination percentage and the date that germination figure stops being valid. Azure blue means the state agency inspected the field and tested the lot; opal green means the producer said so themselves. Both are legal, they are not the same thing, and the price gap between them is exactly that difference. Insist on a bill that carries the lot number, keep the tag and a handful of seed until harvest, and run a hundred-seed test on a wet cloth before you commit an acre — germination on paper is only as good as the storage since the test. Treated seed is dyed because it is poison: never eat it or feed it. Prices here are as published for the pack size shown, with the source and the date it was read on every row. agri.in lists packets and seed dealers, and connects you directly — we never sell, never recommend a variety and never add commission.