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State two reasons to convince a farmer to use an apomictic crop.

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The two reasons to convince a farmer to use an apomictic crop are :
(i) Apomictic seeds maintain all the traits of a hybrid seed year after year of use in the agriculture fields.
(ii) Such apormictic hybrid seeds are cost effective.
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