Question

Green Revolution in India occurred during the
(A) 1970s
(B) 1980s
(C) 1950s
(D) 1960s

Answer 1

Hint: The Green Revolution is known as the process of increasing agricultural production by incorporating modern equipment and techniques.

Complete Answer:
- The credit of starting the Green Revolution in the 1966-67 is credited to Nobel Prize winner Professor Norman Borlaug. But in India, MS Swaminathan is considered the father of this.
- The Green Revolution is intended to increase crop production in the irrigated and non-irrigated agricultural areas of the country through the use of high yielding and sowing seeds.
- The Green Revolution is a result of the development method implemented in Indian agriculture that began in the 1960s as traditional agriculture was replaced by modern agriculture and developed rapidly and in a short time. The name of Green Revolution was also given because as a result Indian agriculture had risen above the subsistence level to a higher level.
- In the year 1960, the Government of India introduced a rigorous development programme in 7 districts selected out of 7 states which is known as IADP (Intensive Area Development Programme). From the mid-1960s, agriculture was a very remarkable period from the point of view of agriculture. The new yielding wheat varieties were developed by Pro. Norman Borlang who is called the father of
- Green Revolution and was adopted in many countries. This new agricultural strategy was named as a high yielding varieties programme. The impact of the Green Revolution was limited to few crops like wheat, corn and millet. It had no effect on other crops even rice was much less affected by this and commercial crops were not affected.
- It is in two phases, first phase (1966-67 to 1980-81) and second phases (1990)

That is why the beginning of the Green Revolution in India was considered in 1960, and then our answer is option (D).

Note: The Green Revolution was a period when the productivity of global agriculture increased many times as a result of new advances, this was possible by the chemical advances used during this period. It was initiated by MS Swaminathan.