GK Question

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Climate-resilient crop varieties are developed to tolerate:

  1. Drought
  2. Salinity
  3. Heat stress
  4. All of these

Answer: All of these

ICAR institutes develop stress-tolerant varieties (e.g., Sahbhagi dhan for drought, CSR varieties for salinity) using conventional breeding, marker-assisted selection, genomics. Critical for food security under climate change. [[ICAR Reports, NCERT Biology Class 12]]

Topic Environmental Science - Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Exam Relevance UPSC Prelims, SSC CGL, Railway NTPC