what are the major advantage of h y v seeds in agriculture also write the HIV full form
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Explanation:
1. High Yielding Variety Seeds 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.
2. High Yielding Variety Seeds needs a lot of water for better yields.
The yield per unit area is significantly high.
3. HYV under optimal conditions requires more labour per unit area, and thus help in generating more employment.
4. HYV are scale neutral which means that other things being remaining the same, the big farmers and the small farmers are likely to get the production and profit in the same proportion.
5. The adoption of HYV does not require any special skill and farmers of various socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds can adopt the new seeds easily.
Hyv stands for high yielding variety of seeds. They help in increasing the yield and also the good produce of crops.