SEED COATING METHOD Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A01C1/06 

FIELD: agriculture, in particular, vegetable and plant growing, more particular, presowing treatment of seeds.

SUBSTANCE: method involves feeding organic-mineral mixture with filler onto seeds; forming coat from mixture by rolling process; applying bentonite onto coat; drying seeds with coat thereon. Ground swollen perlite having density of 70-150 kg/m³ and particle size of 0.01-0.25 mm is used as filler. Before feeding onto seeds, mixture components are mixed with water until homogeneous mass is obtained. Method allows number of mixture feeding cycles to be reduced to minimum value.

EFFECT: simplified coating process by reduced number of mixture feeding cycles and improved germination of seeds sown into soil.

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