Question

what is the advantages and disadvantages of Green Revolution

Answer 1

advantage
1.it increase the production of the crops
2.it explain the modern farming method ,example, irrigation method,etc.
3.it increase the wages also
disadvantage
1.the more and more use of ground water decrease the water level
2.the use of fertilizer ,kill the useful bacteria

Answer 2

"Advantages of Green revolution:

• It solved the food crisis of India by making the farmers to grow crops with high yielding varieties.
• To provide sufficient nourishment and nutrients to the crop, high quality of fertilizers were provided to the framers.
• In order to protect the plant from the attack of pests and insects, pesticides and insecticides were used.
• The areas with irrigation facilities were made to grow more crops; and by doing all these measures, it leads to high crop yield and in turn food scarcity problem was eradicated in India.

Disadvantages of Green revolution:

• The usage of a high quantity of pesticides and insecticides incorporated toxicity in the plants. In order to protect crops from different types of disease caused by pest as well as the damages caused by insects, the farmers used pesticides and insecticides at a high amount.
• The production of different varieties of one single crop was affected. It is because the green revolution programme concentrated mainly on crop with varieties which were very naturally high yielding and did not consider low yielding crop varieties.
• As the water and soil from framing land are ruined either due to rain or flood, all the toxic content of pesticides and other chemicals present in the soil gets mixed with the nearby water source and it leads to the death of aquatic organisms mostly fish. "