Kapas Inspection

Kapas inspection is nothing but verification of seed kapas produced from the passed seed plot in the grower’s premises. This has to be conducted by the Seed Certification Officer within 45 to 50 days from the date of final inspection.

This is considered as an additional inspection for cotton seed farms and should be reported in inspection report form. During inspection, the SCO has to ascertain whether the kapas harvested from the seed farm is available or not. The quantity of the seed kapas ascertained during the Kapas inspection may not be correlated with the quantity of kapas available at the time of sealing and issue of Processing Report.

Ginning of cotton kapas

The cotton kapas collected from passed seed farm, have to be ginned at the approved ginning unit.

The seed kapas stored at growers premises should be moved to the Ginning unit after sealing along with the processing report within THREE months from the date of final inspection. The Sealing intimation procedures as already said need to be followed.

Before commencing ginning of kapas, the gins have to be dismantled and thoroughly cleaned to avoid admixture of seeds.

The seed certification officer in the ginning unit should verify the stock and make necessary entries and permit for ginning. The ginning operation shall be carried with the knowledge / care of the concerned unit Seed Certification Officer. Further operations like cleaning and delinting shall be carried out duly making appropriate entries.

Whenever there is a change of variety or class it is necessary to inspect the cleaning of the ginning machine by the concerned Seed certification officer.

The details of ginning and other operations shall be recorded in the processing register and in processing report by the SCO.

If the seed lot is moved further for processing or cleaning to other units, necessary entries should be made in the concerned registers and processing report. The seed lot shall be sent to the required S.P.Unit duly after sealing the produce along with the PR.

Delinting

The ginned seeds may be delinted at the discretion of the producer. The delinting operation shall be carried out only in the approved seed processing unit. A separate register should be maintained by the unit for recording the delinting details. The cleaning and sampling should be completed within THREE months from the date of receipt of kapas in the ginning unit.

After processing and cleaning Sampling shall be carried out by the Seed certification officer in-charge of the unit.

Before sampling the Seed certification officers should ensure that the cleaning of cotton seeds were done by using appropriate sieves and the seed lot should not contain more than 3 % of immature seeds, ill filled seeds, broken seeds, stained seeds and over fuzzy seeds.

The identity of seed lots should be maintained at all stages of processing. A stack card should be exhibited for every lot, indicating the seed certification number, crop, variety, class, quantity, number of bags and the stage of the seed lot. Such label should be available while processing, cleaning and delinting operations are in progress. The tagging work shall be carried out if the seed lot posses the required seed standards. For foundation class and hybrids the tagging shall be carried out after ascertaining the genetic purity along with other prescribed seed standards.

Tagging shall be completed with in the TWO months from the date of test. In case of seed lots subjected to genetic purity test, tagging shall be completed with in 30 days from the date of test of genetic purity.

In the event of delay in movement of Seed kapas to the ginning unit and in the event of delay in processing, the concerned ADSCN shall issue special permission for continuing the seed certification works further based on the merit of the case. Under such circumstances the validity of the seed lot shall be calculated based on the date of final field inspection. The date of expiry may be calculated such that it shall not exceed 15 months from the date of final field inspection and in any case it shall not be less than 6 months from date of test.