Difference between the duration of hyv seeds and traditional seeds
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Improving crop varieties with desirable characteristics is a requirement of agriculture in order to fulfill the food need of the population and face the environmental challenges. High yielding varieties (HYV) are novel varieties developed by breeders to obtain economic benefits via improved quality measurements. They are also known as modern varieties. Favorable prominent characteristics of the crop species are selected and bred to modern varieties. Therefore HYVs are known as genetically enhanced varieties.
Traditional varieties are the crop varieties grown for a long time period by the farmers. They are not artificially modified. These varieties have good as well as bad characteristics. The cultivation of traditional varieties is becoming less practiced since the high yield varieties are popular among the farmers. Traditional seeds are the products of traditional varieties. They give rise to low or normal quality plants with less tolerance to the environmental challenges and poor yield. Traditional varieties show prominent vegetative growth than high yielding varieties. However, they show poor yield characteristics. Though traditional seeds do not produce high quality plants, they are not subjected to artificial genetic modification. Therefore, it is believed that the use of traditional seeds is safe and has higher health benefits.