Question

What was the major advantage of using hyv seeds in agriculture?

Answer 1

Disadvantages of using HYV seeds ---

1) HYV seeds are costly, many farmers are not able to bear up large expenses.
2) They need more amount of irrigation facilities to give good yield.
3) They need a lot of fertilizers and pesticides, which again adds up to heavy expenses.
4) Using more amount of fertilizers, makes the soil acidic and polluted the environment.
5) It also kills the necessary bacteria present in the soil.

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Answer 2

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Explanation:

1. High Yielding Variety Seeds (HYV) has shorter lifecycle and thereby enables the farmers to go for multiple cropping.

2. High Yielding Variety Seeds (HYV) 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. Prior to the introduction of HYV, the farmers over greater parts of the country.

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.