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Degeneration of Improved Crops in India.

Volume : 29
Issue: Jun-jun
Pages: 200 - 202
Published: November 14, 2023
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Abstract


When an improved variety of an agricultural crop is released for general distribution among cultivators by the Agricultural Departmant. sooner or later a report generally follows that the improved variety has deteriorated or degenerated. Farmers, dealers and commercial seed growers complain that the acre-yield of the improved variety has gradually decreased or that the variety has deteriorated in quality, a few years after its introduction. As the cultivator's return ultimately depends upon the quantity and the quality of the crop he grows, it is of paramount importance to consider the various causes that may lend to the degeneration of an improved variety and to find out such measures as can be practised by the cultivator and the plant breeder to reduce it.

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200 - 202
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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