Beware - fake! How to protect yourself from poor-quality seed?

One of the common mistakes gardeners is to buy a substandard, counterfeit seed suppliers. How to protect yourself from counterfeit?

Precautionary measures

We must be careful and sellers of low-quality seeds, which do not suggest that they are selling "fake". These are the economy, implementing the seeds, for example, 1st reproduction, but at lower prices. They may have purchased the elite seeds of a different sort in the last year, but this product does not meet the specified quality. You should know that to get a good seed and the basic requirement - a spatial isolation, many farms in non-compliance. For example, two sunflower varieties in the neighborhood, which subsequently cross-pollination occurs - the so-called genetic purity is not, the yield will be less. Requires phytosanitary, varietal control, post-harvest treatment of seeds and acquisition of certification.

Only if all the conditions can be engaged in seed production.

As manufacturers protect their product?

Branded bags for seeds are characterized by intricate manufacturing process as seed producers want to protect their products from counterfeiting. The packaging material has a different hologram, as well as labels, where a variety of information about the product contains.

Before purchasing the packaging it is recommended to read, what must be the original bags.

As indicated on the packaging

On the original packaging indicate:

· Name, legal. address and contact information, e-mail. mail manufacturer;

· Expiration dates (the figure is one-year, double layer for the respective products - 2 years). the implementation date should not be printed by printing method. The bottom line is that packing a large number of copies, and prints it immediately the next few years, therefore, to put in the printing department of the exact time of packaging will not work. On the seeds with good quality data information is applied after the product packaging, so the font of printing will be different;

· Weight of seeds;

· Standard notation (GOST, etc.);

· The batch number;

· Description of the variety, care, terms of germination.

Pay attention to the bar code. To obtain rights to use numbers from the black-and-white stripe, required to pass international certification, which provides a guarantee of high quality seeds.

This article aims to convey to the consumer the obvious: buy seeds only from reliable companies with good "reputation", pay attention to what is written on the packaging. Do not seek to acquire seeds cheap, in fact the miser pays twice.

I wish all the high-quality seeds and the rich harvest!

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