Historical study of Green Revolution in the globe and in India

DR. DHANANJAIAH H. T

Historical study of Green Revolution in the globe and in India

Authors: DR. DHANANJAIAH H. T

Unique Paper ID: 167658
Volume: 5
Issue: 8
PageNo: 304-307

Keywords: Food scarcity population growth HYV seeds food security mechanization

Abstract:
"Food is the moral right of all, who are born into this world. Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless” these lines were uttered by the Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, who is considered as the “Father of Green Revolution”. He received the Nobel Peace prize in 1970, for having saved over a billion people from starvation. The term “Green Revolution” was first used by William S. Gaud, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in a speech on 8 March 1968. Land area is perfectly inelastic, it cannot be artificially created, instead, it is a free gift of nature. On the other hand, population of a county and the world consistently increases. Therefore, every new born baby comes with a mouth, which needs to be feed. As a result, the pressure on the existing land, mounts up every year, forcing it to produce more food grains for the growing population. Today, if population of the world is getting enough food grains and not suffering from malnutrition, entire credit must go to one scientific research outcome, namely, “Green Revolution”. It is a set of research technology transfer initiatives, occurring between 1950 and the late 1960s, that increased agricultural production worldwide, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s. The initiatives resulted in the adoption of new technologies, including high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of seeds for different crops, especially dwarf wheat and rice. It was associated with chemical fertilizers, agrochemicals, controlled water-supply and newer methods of cultivation, including mechanization. All of these together were seen as a ‘package of practices’ to supersede ‘traditional’ technology of farming and to be adopted as a whole. This paper attempts to find out the genesis of green revolution across globe.

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ISSN: 2349-6002
Volume: 5
Issue: 8
PageNo: 304-307

Historical study of Green Revolution in the globe and in India

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