Question

Discuss the drawbacks of green revolution

Answer 1

Some of the major demerits or problems of green revolution in India are discussed below:
Green Revolution is a unique event in the agricultural history of Independent India. This has saved us from the disasters of hunger and starvation and made our peasants more confident than ever before. But it has its own inherent deficiency segments.
Ever since its inception, the income gap between large, marginal and small farmers has increased, gap between irrigated and rainfed areas has widened and some crops have benefited more than the others, sometimes even at the cost of other crops.
It is neither product-neutral nor region-neutral and leaves uneven effects of growth on products, regions and classes of people. This has given birth to a plethora of socio-economic problems. According to Radha Krishna Rao, “The spiraling prices of fertilizers, the tendency to use them frequently and the stagnant wheat and rice yields in Punjab and Haryana have combined to confirm, that Green Revolution has reached ripened old age”.
The fatigue of the Green Revolution is already visible. Still the main lacuna in the Green Revolution is that up till now it is an unfinished task. Some of the demerits or problems of Green Revolution are briefly discussed as under:
1. Inter-Crop Imbalances

2. Regional Disparitie

3. Increase in Inter-Personal Inequalities

4. Unemployment

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Answer 2

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Due to overuse of chemicals land degradation has taken place.

Excessive irrigation caused drying of acquifers.

It became a cause for vanishing biodiversity.

It has widened the gap between poor and rich farmers because only agriculturally rich areas have benefitted from it and not the small farmers.