Organic seed and crop fortification with pulse sprout extract in rice

Rice is one of the most important food grains produced and consumed all over the world. It is the major staple food for more than two billion people in Asia and one third of the calorific intake of nearly one billion people of Africa and Latin America.The power of organic farming is the system approach making use of natural buffering in combination with agricultural practices.The use of organic propagation material is obligatory according to the current EU regulations for organic production. Germination has often been proposed as a useful and easy process for improving nutritional quality of legume seeds. There is an amazing increase in nutrients in sprouted seeds when compared to their dried embryo. Seed invigouration implies an improvement in seed performance by any post harvest treatment resulting in improving germinability, greater storability and better yield performance than the corresponding untreated seed.