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Give the objectives of Plant breeding.

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1. To improve yield both in quantity and quality economic yield, acceptable to user.
2. To improve both disease and pest resistance or tolerance i.e. deals with biotic problems.
3. Improve physiological efficiency of the crop to cope up with biotic and abiotic agents.
4. Develop varieties to adopt to areas of cultivation in both short and long seasons.
5. For better consumer preference e.g. improve taste, colour, amount of protein etc.
6. To develop a crop to fit e.g. fit mechanization better agronomic and horticultural

Kavungya answered the question on March 12, 2019 at 06:54

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