5. Easy to Adopt

The adoption of High Yielding Varieties does not require any special skill for adoption. The farmers of different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds can adopt the new seeds without any difficulty. Only a minor adjustment in the dates of sowing of wheat is required as the new seeds require relatively cool temperature at the time of sowing. Being short duration, the wheat crop is to be sown late in the month of November and December instead of October.

When the new seeds were diffused in the mid-sixties, it was expected that the problems of food shortage, unemployment, poverty, hunger, malnutrition, undernourishment, and regional inequalities will be largely solved. But these objectives could not be fully achieved. The geographical conditions required for the successful cultivation of High Yielding Varieties have been given in brief in the following section: