what is green revolution ? How could it modernize Indian agriculture?
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The “Green Revolution,” in the Indian experience, refers to the food production in the 1960s that dramatically increased agricultural yields through development of varieties of grains with greater resistance to disease and pests, together with the use of improved farm management techniques and chemical inputs
The Green Revolution was a period when agriculture in India was converted into an industrial system due to the adoption of modern methods and technology, such as the use of high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, tractors, irrigation facilities, pesticides, and fertilizers.
There has been a significant increase in the usage of pesticides, and India became one of the largest producers of pesticides in the whole of Asia (Narayanan et al., 2016). Although this has contributed to a lot of economic gains (Gollin et al., 2018), it is found out that a significant amount of pesticides is unnecessary in both industrialized and developing countries.