Explain any three political fallouts of Green revolution?
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i) Loss of soil fertility due to increased use of chemical fertilisers. (ii) Continuous use of groundwater for tubewell irrigation has reduced the water table below the ground. (iii) The chemical fertilisers, easily soluble in water, can dissolve in the groundwater and pollute it
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India’s Green Revolution has become the subject of a new research that seeks to study the impact of technology on democracy
The green revolution heralded a new era for agriculture in India, but it also changed the country’s politics, the effects of which are still being felt today. In a recent paper in the American Political Science Review, Aditya Dasgupta of the University of California says the green revolution was influential in the rise of agrarian opposition parties in the 1970s and the accompanying decline of the Congress. In the late 1960s, Indian farmers began using high-yielding variety (HYV) seeds, launching the green revolution which saw crop yields and production rise dramatically.