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प्रश्न
Answer the following question.
Write the desirable characters a farmer looks for in his sugarcane crop.
उत्तर
The desirable characters that should be present in sugarcane crop are :
- High yield
- Thick stem
- High sugar content
- ability to grow in North India.
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