Construction and use of cold storage for seed storage
The construction of a seed cold storage and ordinary cold storage is different, seed cold storage needs to control the temperature and humidity two data, humidity on the germination rate of seeds is very large. Moreover, seeds can be divided into short-term, mid-term and long-term storage according to storage years, and resource (including samples and original seeds) and common storage according to function. Each seed has different temperature and humidity requirements according to storage years. Generally speaking, the preservation of field seeds should ensure that the moisture content of seeds is below 13%, and vegetable seeds are below 7%. Some special requirements are different.
The construction of seed storage cold storage has the following contents to pay attention to:
1, short-term seed cold storage: according to the storage conditions designed by the cold storage, the storage life of productive seeds is expected to be 2~5 years. The temperature of the cold storage is controlled at 15℃ ~ 20℃, and the relative humidity is controlled at 50% ~ 60%. Seeds can be stored in paper bags, cloth bags, plastic bags and glass volume packaging storage.
2, medium seed cold storage: used to store liquid seeds, the seed life expectancy is 10 ~ 30 years. The relative temperature of seed refrigerated storage is designed to be controlled between 0℃ and 10℃, and the relative humidity is less than 60%. Medium seed refrigerated storage in such as: metal box, glass volume, aluminum foil bag, plastic composite membrane bag and other airtight volume, keep the seed water content in 6% ~ 9%.
3, long-term seed cold storage: used to store seeds for a long time, can keep the life of seeds in 30 ~ 50 years, or longer. According to the international long-term seed reference temperature is -18℃ or lower, the seed water content is 5±1%; Therefore, the relative temperature of long-term seed cold storage is controlled at -10℃ ~ -20℃, and the relative temperature is not more than 60%. The seed packaging used for long-term storage is the same as for medium-term storage and must be airtight.
Cold storage construction needs to use refrigeration equipment, evaporator, microcomputer temperature control system, refrigeration system is mainly refrigeration compressor, refrigeration compressor for cold storage construction is an important component, can effectively ensure the temperature of cold storage construction after. Microcomputer temperature control system is also the brain of cold storage engineering, which can effectively control the temperature of cold storage after construction.
Seed cold storage construction will have certain help for agricultural production, not only can let the seed in the effective promotion of the sowing quality, but also can prevent the emergence of moistureproof, agricultural production and farmers’ income will have certain help, this is also the seed cold storage building one of the most effective characteristic, hoped everybody in the process of storage, Knowledge of temperature and humidity should improve farmers’ income.