Job analysis: seeding

Job analysis includes (1) task taxonomy and (2) personnel specification. These are the basic jobs:

1. seeding -
1.1 Seed production and multiplication

In market, different HYV seeds are available. But the problem of planting these seeds is loss of genetic diversity in the land. Loss of genetic diversity can lose genes that could increase yield of new varieties in future.

Some farmers are breeding seeds in their farms. They multiply seeds by three ways - (a) self pollinated; (b)cross pollinated (c)both. The commercial crop wheat and rice are pure line varieties. Cross pollinated crops are maize and sunflower. Clonally propagated crops are some varieties of potato, sugarcane.

1.2 Processing and storage: Processing involves drying, cleaning, treating with chemicals, packaging seeds and assuring internal quality. Quality seed means the seed that resists pests and generate nutrients. In this stage, knowledge about different characteristics of seed is important.





1.1 Direct : seed spreading manually : Competency in eye-hand co-ordination,
1.2 Indirect: Using rice seed machine : Competency in eye-hand co-ordination.











2.Weeding
3. Irrigating
4.Harvesting
5. Threshing
6. Drying
6.Milling
7.Storage
8.Product processing
9. Trading