Question

What
was the major advantage of using Hyv Seeds in
agriculture?​

Answer 1

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High Yielding Variety Seeds (HYV) 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.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Advantages of High Yielding Variety Seeds over Traditional Varieties of Seeds are as follows:

1. High Yielding Variety Seeds (HYV) 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. The traditional varieties of rice and wheat, on the other hand, take about 130 and 150 days respectively to harvest. The new seeds thus enable the farmers to economize on land.

2. High Yielding Variety Seeds (HYV) needs a lot of water for better yields. The yield per unit area is significantly high. If it is considered in terms of water required per quintal of wheat or rice, the new seeds require less water as compared to that of the traditional varieties. HYV thus economize on water also as the crop remain in the field for a shorter period

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, especially in the rainfed areas were exclusively de­pendent on the arrival of monsoon for the commencement of their agricultural activities. They used to remain unemployed during the months of summer season (May and June) after the harvest of rabi crop. But now, the farmers and the dependent labourers get work in various agricultural operations through­out the year.

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. In other words, the new seeds are not biased towards the big or the small farmers.

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. A minor adjustment in the sowing dates of wheat is required as HYV need relatively cool temperatures at the time of sowing. For example, in Pun­jab and Haryana, the sowing dates of wheat prior to the Green Revolution were in the third or last week of October when the day temperature used to be around 35°C, but now wheat is generally sown in the Sutlej-Ganga plain not before the mid­dle of November when the day temperature reads about 30°C and the night temperature falls around 18°C.

The farmers have, however, very well adjusted their sowing and harvest­ing dates on the basis of their experience during the last thirty years.