Explain any three political fallouts of Green Revolution.
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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.
To study the impact of this on politics, Dasgupta links the share of agricultural land planted with HYV crops to 20,000 election races in state elections between 1957 and 1987. Analysing data before and after the green revolution, he finds that the green revolution significantly reduced the Congress’s share of votes and seats in assemblies.