What are HYV seeds? Mention its merits and limitations.

High Yielding Variety Seeds (HYV seeds) are seeds of better quality than normal quality seeds.

1. The products from these seeds are a bit more compared to the normal ones.

2. These seeds are a better option of seeds in order to obtain a healthy and surplus crop.

3. These seeds have a good immune system to fight with insects and other diseases.

4. Another goods feature of these seeds is they need very less irrigation care.

5. These seeds played a very prominent role in the introduction of the green revolution of India.

The usage of these seeds has a certain limitation :

These high-yielding varieties of seeds (wheat) depend crucially on the availability of fertilizers, adequate water supply, pesticides, and insecticides.