Important Crop Germplasm Introduced in India during 2006

Abstract

Indian agriculture has been tremendously benefited in the
past though exotic germplasm introduced and utilized in
developing better crop varieties and hybrid. But most of
the crop improvement programmes have now reached at
the threshold of dramatic advances and an access to exotic
germplasm for import is becoming all the more harder
from other countries after an enactment of IPR Act,
various national and international agreement, and stringent
quarantine measure operative. The Indian agriculture
production scenario is also confronting numerous other
problem which calls upon national strategic approaches
to the Global Plan of Action such as broadening the
genetic base of the major crops; increasing the range of
genetic diversity available to farmers; strengthening the