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importance of green revolution in India s economic development. eassy 700 words​

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Green Revolution refers to a significant improvement in agricultural production. Green Revolution occurred as a result of the adoption of the “new agricultural strategy” in 1964-65. The new strategy envisaged raising farm output through the use of High-Yielding Varieties (HYV) seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, modern implements and machinery, multiple cropping, irrigation facilities and agricultural credit.

The necessity for new agricultural strategy arose out of the need to increase agricultural production in the face of stagnation of production and rapidly increasing demand. The government introduced an intensive development programme in seven districts in 1960 and this programme was named Intensive Agriculture District Programme (IADP).

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This programme was an intensive effort for immediate increase in agricultural production in selected areas where, irrigation and assured rainfall, made conditions favourable. It also included the provision for the supply of inputs like credit, fertilisers, seeds, plant protection and minor irrigation.

The seven districts selected were West Godavari, Shahabad, Raipur, Tanjavur, Ludhiana, Aligarh and Pali. The first four were selected for rice, the next two for wheat and the last one for millets. In 1964-65, the programme was extended to rest of the country as Intensive Agricultural Area Programme (IAAP). The period of mid-1960s was very significant from the point of view of agriculture.

New high-yielding varieties of wheat put into practice in the Kharif season of 1966 and were termed High-Yielding Varieties Programme (HYVP). This was a package programme since it depended crucially on irrigation, fertilizers, and high-yielding varieties of seeds, pesticides and insecticides.

Initially it was implemented in a total area of 1.89 million hectares. On the eve of the Fourth Plan, the coverage had expanded to be 9.2 million hectares. In 1989- 90 total area was 63.8 million hectares, almost 35 per cent of gross cropped area.