Green Revolution Of India And The Environmental Revolution In India

Environmental revolution in India

Abstract:

The most common form of agriculture biotechnology is that it will solve world hunger. This agricultural biotechnology is referred as “environmental revolution” or “evergreen revolution”. Both the terms are linked with “green revolution”. In the view of farmers, citizens, policymakers and political readers, it was a positive event that brought benefits. It increased food production, especially production of cereals. Due to this food imports to India decreased.

Environmental revolution or green revolution was a publicly owned technology that belongs to the people only. The research was conducted with public money to fulfill a public need, inadequate feed production and it created public goods to which

In India, it began in 1960s with the implementation of new techniques and high yield crop varieties. It was a period when the productivity of global agriculture suddenly increased. In 1963, wheat was first introduced in India by American agronomist Dr.Norman Borlaug, who is also known as “the father of the Green Revolution”. The new methods adopted included the use of high yield variety of seeds along with the use of modern farming

Along with high yielding seeds and irrigation facilities, the enthusiasm of farmers mobilized the idea of agricultural revolution. Due to the rise in use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers there were negative effects on the soil and the land such as land degradation. The production increases fostered by the green revolution are often credited with having helped to avoid widespread famine, and for feeding billions of people. There are also claims that the green revolution has decreased food security for a large number of people

Evidences:

The population of our country has grown so much since the green revolution; we have to believe that without this revolution there would have been greater famine and malnutrition. In India, the annual wheat production rise from 10 million tons in the 1960s to 73 million tons in 2006. The average person in the developing world consumes 25% more calorie per day now than before the green revolution. Between 1950 and 1984, as the green revolution transferred agriculture around the globe, world grain production increased by over 250%.