Question

What is hyv seeds. write its advantages and disadvantages?

Answer 1

HYV is the high yielding variety seeds
it's advantage is that it produce more crops than simple seed
it's disadvantages that it need more fertilizers and chemical pesticides..

Answer 2

ANSWER:

Hyv seeds are created by scientist to increase the food supplies and to overcome the shortage of food in developing countries.

The advantages of hyv seeds:

• The advantages hyv seeds includes shorter life cycle which enable farmers to grow crop in short period and undergo multiple cropping, because these seeds can produce ten times regular crops than other seeds in same growing land.

Disadvantages of hyv seeds:

• Disadvantages includes, the farmers in India cannot afford to purchase hyv seeds because it is very expensive.
• The hyv seeds technique requires heavy amount chemical fertilizers, pesticides and water to be used and hence it is again require the huge investment.