The Green
Revolution refers to a series of research and development and technology
occurring between the 1930s and the late 1960s that increased agricultural
production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, in the late 1960s.
The initiatives involved the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal
grains, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized
seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers.
- Refers to a major biogenetic advance in agricultural technology.
- After the invention of HYV of rice and wheat known as (miracle seeds), the theory accelerated
- But from the theory only the wealthy landed people were benefited
Failure of Green revolution
Green
revolution is class biased. As the HYV seeds were very high priced, only the
wealthy people or farmer could bought that, as a result most of the farmers
were deprived for not being able to gain these opportunity and they remained
poor
Many of the
seasonal labor as share cropping farmers, tenants of farming land lost their
job as all the wealthy farmer drawn most of the sharecrop land etc.
