Cash Crops: Genetic Diversity, Erosion, Conservation and Utilization by P.M. Priyadarshan
English | EPUB | 2022 | 620 Pages | ISBN : 3030749258 | 26.5 MB
Cash crops are grown and sold for monetary gain and not necessarily for sustenance. They include coffee, tea, coconut, cotton, jute, groundnut, castor, linseed, cocoa, rubber, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, potato, wheat, corn and teff. While some of these crops have been improved for realizing yield potential, breeding of many of them is still in infancy. Crops that underwent rigorous breeding have eventually lost much of the diversity due to extensive cultivation with a few improved varieties and the diversity in less bred species is to be conserved.