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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 655

Q655

First hybrid maize Ganga-l was developed in India in

A.
1957
B.
1961
Answer
C.
1964
D.
1965

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The first hybrid maize Ganga-I was developed in India in 1961.
After characterization and classification of Indian land races and simultaneous effects for extracting inbred lines both from indigenous and exotic materials, the first set of yellow double cross hybrids were released as Ganga-1, Ganga 101, Deccan, Ranjit.