Coated seed and process for coating a seed

Disclosed is a coated seed having a coating for improving the efficiency of phosphorus in plant nutrients at the early stage of plant growth, the seed being a barley, wheat, sunflower, rape, pea or tomato seed, wherein the coating comprises; (i) an aqueous fixing agent containing a fluid byproduct o...

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Main Authors SAARIKKO, EIJA, PELTONEN, JARI
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 31.08.2006
Edition7
Subjects
AGRICULTURE
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
FERTILISING
FISHING
FORESTRY
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HUNTING
PLANTING
SOWING
TRAPPING
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Summary:Disclosed is a coated seed having a coating for improving the efficiency of phosphorus in plant nutrients at the early stage of plant growth, the seed being a barley, wheat, sunflower, rape, pea or tomato seed, wherein the coating comprises; (i) an aqueous fixing agent containing a fluid byproduct of agriculture or fermentation being molasses, vinasse or syrup or a mixture thereof, and optionally an emulsified oil, (ii) a fertiliser powder, which is a monopotassium phosphate for barley seed, monopotassium phosphate or monocalcium phosphate for wheat seed, monopotassium phosphate for sunflower seed, monocalcium phosphate or dicalcium phosphate for rape seed, monocalcium phosphate or dicalcium phosphate for pea seed, or monopotassium phosphate or urea phosphate for tomato seed, an the coated seed contains 100 parts by weight of seeds, 0.5-5 parts by weight of the fixing agent, and 1-25 parts by weight of the fertiliser powder.
Bibliography:Application Number: NZ20020529725