Green revolution and mention it negative consequences
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Green Revolution
Explanation:
Green revolution refers to the large increase in production of food grains due to use of high yielding variety (hyv) seeds. Green revolution is the spectacular advancement in the field of agriculture.
Merits of Green Revolution
Compared to the traditional seeds, the HYV seeds promised to produce much greater amounts of grain on a single plant. As a result, the same piece of land would now produce far larger quantities of food grains than was possible earlier.
Demerits of Green Revolution:
Poor farmers could not afford HYV seeds, fertilizers and machinery.
Some borrowed and ended up with large debts
HYV seeds need more water and fertilizer, which is expensive
New machinery replaced manual labour leading to unemployment and rural-urban migration
The Green Revolution was limited to rice and wheat only.