Question

How high yielding variety seed improved rice farming

Answer 1

Answer:

Advantages of High Yielding Variety Seeds over Traditional Varieties of Seeds are as follows: 1. High Yielding Variety Seeds (HYV) has shorter lifecycle and thereby enables the farmers to go for multiple cropping. For example, new seeds of rice and wheat complete their lifecycles in 110 and 120 days respectively.

Answer 2

Answer:

The high yielding variteies of crops possess certain desirable charecteristics as given below:

1. The high yielding varieties of crops are dwarf. Due to short height they are stronger.

2. The improved varieties of crops give us more yield per hectare.

3. The high yield varieties of crops give better response to fertilisers.

4. The high yielding varieties of crops take less time for maturing.

5.The high yielding varieties of crops need more frequent weeding.

6.The high yielding varieties of crops need continuous use of pesticides.

7. The high yielding varieties of crops are generally more susceptible to diseases than the traditional varieties.