Complete a Pro/Con chart based on the impact of Green revolution for human
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Pros:
⇒Increased global food production which helped to make countries self sufficient in food and allowing food aid to be sent to other countries in famine due to surplus amount of food grains.
⇒Greatly reduced the price of food grains in countries due to high demand causing less food insecurity.
⇒Helped developing countries like India to come out of famine and become one of the largest food producers in the world. It also allowed developing countries to focus on other goals and provided the backbone for their economies along with making them stable.
Cons:
⇒It caused unemployment and forced people to look for other work as machinery made the use of human labor obsolete.
⇒The use of chemicals such as fertilizers, pesticides, weedicides and herbicides degraded the soil quality. It caused the death of actual helpful microorganisms in plant growth and decreased the natural fertility of the soil.
⇒Due to these chemicals, the humus content which is extremely fertile was reduced. Along with this, the soil texture degraded.