PROBLEMS IN THE SEED PRODUCTION OF TROPICAL FORAGE SPECIES
LAERTE FERREIRA SANTOS FILHO
A brief summary of the history ofthe cultivated pasture expansion and of the tropical forage seed industry development in Brazil is presented. Several problems related to seed production, analysis and trade are discussed, along with suggestions of several topics where re-search informations and the lack of adequate in&astructure, such as seed laboratories, trade re-gulation policies, and others, are considered to be main constraints to the continuation ofthe tropical forage seed industry development in Brazil. índex tenns: seed, forage, tropical, production, storage, analysis, research, dormancy, scarifi-cation, harvest, drying, grass, legume, trade.
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