RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF SEEDS TO SAFLOR DOMESTIC VARIETIES

Abstract

Article is devoted to the study of safflower – oil-bearing crop, promising for Ukraine with a purpose of feasibility study of its growing in conditions of Eastern Forest-Steppe (in particular, in the Kharkiv region). Safflower has a fairly high level of profitability - reduces load on the soil, so it is a good predecessor. It is positioned as an alternative sunflower crop during growing in rainy conditions of the southern Steppe of Ukraine, as well as on impoverished and inadequate (saline and eroded) soils. In extremely drought conditions, with a significant freezing of winter cabbage crops, it is safflower that can stabilize the production of oilseeds and guarantee the profitability of crop and oilseed production. Results of laboratory examinations on the germinating power and capacity of safflower seeds of varieties, recommended for cultivation in Ukraine, are presented. Influence of classical nanomaterials (structured water and stimulants based on fullerenes) on the sowing properties of safflower has been determined. The important effect of nanomaterials is to increase resistance of plants to adverse environmental factors such as high and low temperatures, lack of moisture, phytotoxic effects of pesticides, pests and diseases, which ultimately contribute to a significant increase in viability and availability of environmentally friendly products. The main technological properties of seeds (moisture and oil content) and composition of fatty acids, acid number and peroxide number of safflower oil are determined.