Question

what is HYV?give example

Answer 1

High Yield Variety (HYV) seeds were developed by scientists to improve food supplies and reduce famine in developing countries.
Examples :Paddy, Wheat, Maize, Jowar , Bajra and other crops utilized HYV seeds over large area within a short period. HYV seeds yield more under irrigated conditions.

Answer 2

HYV stands for High Yielding Variety.

Explanation:

• HYV are crops that produce high quality seeds.
• HYV plants produce seeds of quantity far more than that of normal plants.

• The HYV plants are generated by crossing such varieties of parent plants who have qualities like high seed producing capability, disease resistance, drought resistance, salt resistance and also resistant to water stress.
• The resulting offspring gets all the resistant phenotype along with the production of high quality and more number of seeds or grains per plant.
• Norman Borlaug of Mexico, the pioneer of Green Revolution (increased food grain production) introduced the concept of HYV seeds.
• Examples : Kalyan Sona, Sonalika, both are HYV of wheat.