Introduction as Crop Improvement

When a cultivated variety of a species is attempted to be grown outside its well adapted climatic periphery - such variety is said to be introduced to new area. This method of introduction was followed by many ancient travellers, diplomats, warriors, kings almost inadvertently in many crops. Introduction- as a crop improvement method has led to introduction of crop itself to the new region or introduction of new cultivated variety to an already existing crop of such region. For e.g., potato is an introduced crop to India.

Even in modern days, introduction is a major method of crop improvement - where in new species of a crop, or a crop itself or a variety of a crop are deliberately introduced in a new area. In introduction of potato, the crop itself was new to India a new species of cotton was introduced to India along with conventionally grown cotton species. Introduction brings in new potentialities of crop production.