Green Revolution in India: Concept, Importanc...

Green Revolution in India: Concept, Importance and its Impacts

Author Name : Anjali

Since India's independence, food security and agricultural development have been its top priorities. However, the emphasis placed has changed, causing the agricultural sector's development to occasionally experience rise and fall. First 5 year plan maintained agriculture growth as its main objective. Despite this, India experienced a serious food scarcity throughout the Second Plan. In order to address this issue, India recruited professionals in 1958 to investigate the root reasons for the shortage of grains and recommend solutions. According to report published in 1959 report, “India's Food Problem and Steps to Meet It,” the committee advised that India concentrate more on those regions where agricultural output could be increased. As a result, certain existing developed areas were chosen for intensive farming to produce additional food grains. Large expenditures were made by these two programmes in irrigation, fertiliser, agricultural research and development, which together shaped a duration of rapid expansion in production and output in agro sector of India, known as the green revolution (GR). Even though it was widely praised for its success, the very fact that it was concentrated on a few regions that had already experienced significant agricultural development and that it was supported by significant investment in those regions gave rise to factors that encouraged targeted regional development. To put it another way, its strategy and design were not geared towards attaining a balanced development of all regions that was primarily focused on agricultural development. Thus, even while the green revolution significantly increased agricultural output, productivity, and revenue, it also had a number of negative repercussions on the rural economy. The magnitude of a second, urgently needed GR, which is now urgently required due to variables of international viewpoint and dimensions will also be studied. But before we do that, let's briefly touch on the first GR's historical background. The present study is going to focus on the concept, importance and Impact of Green revolution in India.

Keywords: Green Revolution, agro sector, agricultural development, agricultural output, productivity and revenue.