- promote eary maturity in crops
- propagation of seedless plants is possible
- Can raise more than one variety of crops
- Impartion of disease resistant crops
- Fast growing seedlings resulting into early maturity and production
- Do not experience dormancy like seeds
- Give parts acceptable shapes and sizes hence ease of Carrying out management practices- Development of high yielding crops
- Ensures maintenance of genetical / clonal characteristicts to ensure uniformity
- Facilitate development of drought resistant crops
- Facilitate fast multiplication of desired crops
- Its used to repair damaged parts of the crop
- Production of high quality crop produce
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