In a printed note prepared by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research for the Eighth Meeting of the Crops and Soils wing of the Board of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in India it was explained with the aid of available statistics that the average yields of the major food crops in India were practically the lowest in the world and that the yields were progressively declining from year to year. In another note from the same source circulated on the same occasion it was stated that pure seed was the first requisite for good cultivation, though it was seldom that the farmers sowed pure seeds. On the other hand, crop survey reports from U. S. A. speak of the achievements in crop breeding having more than offset the declining fertility in continually cropped soils such that the farmers have been enabled to maintain average yields despite the increased damage by pests and diseases
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