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Write a note on green revolution !!!
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Explanation:
Short note on Green Revolution:
The use of high yield seeds has resulted in a substantial increase in agricultural products that has helped our country to become self - sufficient in terms of the availability of food items.
The Green Revolution has helped to increase all farmers financial status by the production of craft through the use of HYV seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and improved and implementation of modern cultivation techniques.
But there are some drawbacks in the Green Revolution, it required a lot of water for farming it leads to decreases the ground water levels, which shows unequal benefits derived from farmers from different regions of our country. And using higher quantity of pesticides for better productivity also leads to the soil contamination.
The term Green Revolution refers to the renovation of agricultural practices beginning in Mexico in the 1940s. Because of its success in producing more agricultural products there, Green Revolution technologies spread worldwide in the 1950s and 1960s, significantly increasing the number of calories produced per acre of agriculture
The crops developed during the Green Revolution were high yield varieties - meaning they were domesticated plants bred specifically to respond to fertilizers and produce an increased amount of grain per acre planted.
The terms often used with these plants that make them successful are harvest index, photosynthate allocation, and insensitivity to day length. The harvest index refers to the above-ground weight of the plant. During the Green Revolution, plants that had the largest seeds were selected to create the most production possible. After selectively breeding these plants, they evolved to all have the characteristic of larger seeds. These larger seeds then created more grain yield and a heavier above ground weight.