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The high-yielding wheat and paddy varieties from the 1960s to the 1980s, which made the country self-reliant in cereals like Rice- IR-8, IR,-36,Jaya were developed by the various Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) institutes and state agricultural universities. These institutions have continued to dominate the breeding space in wheat, paddy (including basmati), sugarcane, pulses, soyabean, groundnut, mustard, potato and all such open-pollinated variety or OPV crops, whose grain can be saved as seed for re-planting by farmers.Hybrid seed adoption rates in India are today estimated at 60-70 per cent in maize, 90 per cent in jowar and bajra, and 95 per cent in cotton. But the real story of hybridisation-driven growth has been in vegetables, where a doubling of production, 88.62 million tonnes (mt) to 178.17 mt between 2001-02 and 2016-17.
a.Name the father of Indian Green Revolution. Suggest two Improved varieties of Rice, Wheat.
b. Discuss the role of hybridization in crop improvement.

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