1. When was green revolution introduced? Name two States which benefited most by this revolution.
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it was introduced by MS Swaminathan..
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Green Revolution: It was an effort to increase agricultural production in India through a package
of industrial agriculture technologies such as hybrid seeds and use of advanced technologies.
Punjab and haryana wre the two states which benefited most in green revolution.
The Green Revolution was initiated in India in the 1960’s to increase food production and
feed the millions of malnourished people throughout the nation. It has been credited with
increasing yields in many of the places where the technology has been adopted, but the benefits
experienced have been unequal across regions and groups. The goal of this literature review is to
look at the Green Revolution to determine how it may or may not have benefitted small farmers
in terms of increased productivity and income. Emphasis has been placed on India, one of the
recipients of Green Revolution technologies. Being the second most populous country in the
world, it is important to understand how farmers are affected since they are responsible for
feeding the exceedingly large and growing population of a developing nation.
There are many people in India who life in extreme poverty and suffer from malnutrition,
and understanding how to increase agricultural productivity and yields in a way that benefits all
farmers is very important. The decades since the dawn of the Green Revolution in India have
revealed large disparities in the overall benefits to farmers.
Distribution and practical application of Green Revolution strategies has been uneven
geographically as well as across socio-economic classes. Historical property relations across
states have affected present landholdings as has the role of the government in different states to
support agrarian activity. Geographical distribution issues can be broken down further into
ecological barriers, or the viability of the land to accept Green Revolution technology.
Uneven distribution among small and large farmers is apparent in three ways: small
farmers’ lack of funds to take advantage of Green Revolution technology; insufficient
information and resources available to small farmers to effectively apply the technology; and the
absence of government support for small farmers. The uneven distribution of Green Revolutiontechnology has led to increased social disparity among classes. A disproportionate amount of
people achieved success with the modern technology that was developed to positively affect
everyone.
There are four important effects of the spatial and social disparities caused by the Green
Revolution in India. These are: the change from traditional sustainable methods to
monocropping and unsustainable practices; violence and a dissolution of the sense of community
among farmers; the loss of many small farmers’ landholdings to large commercial farmers; and
increased suicide rates of small farmers.