Advantages:
1. Single seed descent method advantages the generations with possible speed in a conventional breeding method.
2. It requires very little space, effects and labours.
3. It makes the best use of green house and offseason nursery, facilitates because in that two to three generations can be raised in each year.
4. It ensures that the plants retained at the end population are random sample from F2 population.
Disadvantages:
1. It does not permit any from of selection in natural or artificial.
2. In each successive generation the population size between progressive smaller due to poor germination.