Use of HYV Seeds & Production of Wheat in Haryana: A Temporal - Spatial Analysis of Rohtak District from 1966-67 to 2010-11

Abstract

Thomas Malthus first time revealed that future of mankind is not safe if ratio of population growth and food production continuous remain same, but it was Norman Burlaug who solved this problem to a certain limit by diffusion of new seeds of cereals i.e. emergence of HYV seeds of wheat(firstly), in 1950 in Mexico. Soon after it India used such type of HYV seeds in 1963-64 in some selected area of Punjab, Hayana and western Uttar Pradesh. The production of wheat in Haryana was 2342000 tons in 1970-71 with a use of 55.8% HYV seeds which goes to 11578000 tons in 2010-2011 with a use of 98.2% HYV seeds. The same result is shown by Rohtak district such production growth revealed the utility of HYV seeds in food grain production.