write an article on green revolution in India
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the term green revolution was given by Dr swaminathan
Essay on Green Revolution in India!
Essay # What is Green Revolution ?
The introduction of high-yielding varieties of Indian seeds after 1965 and the increased use of fertilizers and irrigation are known collectively as the Indian Green Revolution.
It provided the Increase in production needed to make India self-sufficient in food grains.
The programme was started with the help of the United States based Rockefeller Foundation and was based on high-yielding varieties of wheat, rice and other grains that had been developed In Mexico and in the Philippines. Of the high yielding seeds, wheat produced the best results.
Essay # Why Green Revolution ?
The world’s worst recorded food disaster happened in 1943 in British ruled India known as the Bengal Famine. An estimated four million people died of hunger that year alone in Eastern India (that included today’s Bangladesh). The initial theory put forward to explain that catastrophe was that there was an acute shortfall in food production in the area.
However, Indian economist Amartya Sen (recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics, 1998) has established that while food shortage was a contributor to the problem, a more potent factor was the result of hysteria related to World War II which made food supply a low priority for the British rulers. The hysteria was further exploited by Indian traders who hoarded food in order to sell at higher prices.
Nevertheless when the British left India four years later in 1947, India continued to be haunted by memories of the Bengal Famine. It was therefore natural that food security was a paramount item on free India’s agenda. This awareness led, on one hand to the Green Revolution in India and on the other, legislative measures to ensure that businessmen would never again be able to hoard food for reasons of profit.
However, the term “Green Revolution” is applied to the period from 1967 to 1978. Between 1947 and 1967, efforts at achieving food self sufficiency’s were not entirely successful. Efforts until 1967 largely concentrated on expanding the farming areas. But starvation deaths were still being reported in the newspapers.
In a perfect case of Malthusian economics, population was growing at much faster rate than food production. This called for drastic action to increase yield. The action came in the form of Green Revolution. The term “Green Revolution” is a general one that is applied to successful agricultural experiments in many Third world countries. It is not specific to India. But It was most successful in India.