Under the patronage of Shaikh Sulaiman Bin Abdulaziz Al Rajhi, the chairman of the Board of Directors, a seeds cleaning and treatment plant at Hail Project was inaugurated on 04/03/1426 H.
The inauguration of seeds cleaning and treatment plant, being the most advanced and the largest plant in the Kingdom, is considered one of the achievements to be viewed under the large spectrum of the agricultural progress in the Kingdom. The plant has been set up by NADEC, one of the members of the committee of seeds producers in the Kingdom, with the aim to preserve purity and safety of the wheat seeds.
The production capacity of the plant is 15 tons per hour, with a total productivity reaching 300 tons per day. The seeds production process passes through a number of stages beginning with the stage of separating dust and straw by 10 colanders of different sizes, followed by the second stage in which the dried and broken seeds are separated. In the third stage, the perfect wheat seeds of low quality weight are segregate, while in the fourth stage, long wheat seeds and barley seeds are separated. During the fifth stage, the seeds are sprayed with fungicide and colored. The sixth and final stage is the stage of packing the seeds in 50 KG bags or 1-ton large packs. The plant is well equipped with a laboratory for inspecting plantation ratios and quality weight of the seeds as well as ensuring that the seeds have been completely covered with fungicide, and for measuring the smoothness degree of the treated seeds.
Various projects of NADEC located in Wadi Al Dawasir, Haradh, Hail and Al Jauf have made it possible to dedicate independent farms for production of seeds for the purpose of growing which are produced in big quantity in accordance with a well studied method, that as a result, the production of high quality seeds has been possible. NADEC plans to produce 15000 tons of wheat seeds for the 2005 season.
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