Consider the following characteristics 1 It is popularly known as ASHA in India 2 nbs...........

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Consider the following characteristics :

1. It is popularly known as ASHA in India.

2. It is the first non-industrial crop and the second food legume with a completed genome sequence.

3. It reveals clues on how the genomic sequence can be useful to crop improvement for sustainable food production, particularly in the marginal environments of Asia and Sub- Saharan Africa.

If one of the crops has to represent all of the characteristics mentioned above then which amongst the following crops it is likely to be?

Pearl Millet

Pigeon Pea

Cow Pea

Green Gram

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Explanation:

2nd option is correct.
All of the above mentioned statements are correct regarding Pigeon Pea.
Pigeon peas can be of a perennial variety, in which the crop can last three to five years (although the seed yield drops considerably after the first two years), or an annual variety more suitable for seed production. Pigeon pea is an important legume crop of rainfed agriculture in the semiarid tropics.