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Lesson 24:Intensive Agricultural Era

High Yielding Varieties Programme

The intensive area approach acquired new potency with the emergence of exotic high yielding varieties of cereal crops and technological improvements. These were incorporated in the high yielding varieties programme which became the kingpin of the new strategy of agricultural development launched in 1966-67.

The sole objective of HYV programme was to increase the total food production by utilizing high yielding seeds of selected crops. The selected crops were paddy, wheat, bajra, jowar and maize.