write a note on improvement in crop variety
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Crop Variety Improvement. This approach depends on finding a crop variety that can give a good yield. Varieties or strains of crops can be selected by breeding for various useful characteristics such as disease resistance, response to fertilisers, product quality and high yields.It reduces the cost of crop production and allows the farmers to grow multiple crops in a year. Wider Adaptability: Developing varieties for wider adaptability helps in stabilising the crop production under different environmental conditions.
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Crop Variety Improvement
Improvement in crop variety is done to get better varieties of crops with the desired qualities.One method to improve crop variety is hybridisation.Hybridisation is the crossing of two plants genetically dissimilar.It can be done between two species (interspecific) ,between two plants of same genera (intergeneric)