Essay On Green Revolution

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The Green revolution introduced by the Government of India in the late 1960’s was an attempt to eradicate the problem of food scarcity in the country and to make the people of the country self sufficient and self reliant. New high yield varieties of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and farm processes were introduced in farm production to improve the condition of agriculture in the country which could optimise the agricultural output and help in the eradication of problems of hunger and poverty from the country. The paper attempts to assess the socio-economic consequences of green revolution on different sections of the society. The researcher has made an attempt to identify, whether the introduction of Green revolution led to the socio-economic …show more content…

He argued that the positive effects were only visible in the regions with large farmers with commercial interests. The money and muscle power was used by these farmers to sway the government agencies to their advantage. This resulted in flow of investment and development in sections which were already developed and genuine agrarian community were the losers.
According to Overdorf (2009), application of chemically altered expensive seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, which could survive in irregular conditions increased disparities between the farmers who could afford to buy such seeds and who couldn’t. Traditional small farmers were not able to compete with the rich farmers and their conditions deteriorated.
It was the bottom 20 percent of the farmers which suffered the most as a result of Green Revolution. These were the farmers with land holdings of less than 10 acres. They were able to make some marginal gains in good weather years by applying small additional doses of chemical fertilizer to Mexican wheats, but, in general, they have not been able to sustain the indivisible inputs – tube wells and agricultural machinery - required for the efficient cultivation of the new varieties. It can be inferred that they suffered an absolute deterioration as a consequence of Green revolution (Francine R. Frankel,

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