[pic] The Green Revolution The world’s worst recorded food disaster occurred in 1943 in British-ruled India. Known as the Bengal Famine‚ an estimated 4 million people died of hunger that year in eastern India (which included today’s Bangladesh). Initially‚ this catastrophe was attributed to an acute shortfall in food production in the area. However‚ Indian economist Amartya Sen (recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics‚ 1998) has established that while food shortage was a contributor to the
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Green Revolution From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Green Revolution (disambiguation). [pic] [pic] Increased use of various technologies such as pesticides‚ herbicides‚ and fertilizers as well as new breeds of high yield crops were employed in the decades after the Second World War to greatly increase global food production. |[pic] | |Agriculture
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concerns about food security. All this goes to show that the country now urgently needs a follow up green revolution to the one of the 1960s which led to major breakthroughs in wheat and rice production. The next green revolution has to happen to chase the twin goals of food security and nutritional diet. Without the second revolution‚ which can be postponed at the nation’s peril‚ the supply side’s response to growing demand for food will be weak leading to disturbing price spikes. Agriculture’s critical
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other grains were instrumental to the green revolution. The Green Revolution spread technologies that had already existed before‚ but had not been widely used outside industrialized nations. These technologies included modern irrigation projects‚ pesticides‚ synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and improved crop varieties developed through the conventional‚ science-based methods available at the time. The novel technological development of the Green Revolution was the production of novel wheat cultivars
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With the rapid growth of the population on the earth‚ something had to be done. The Green Revolution occurred to help the problem. The Green Revolution is the great increase in production of food grains due to the introduction of high-yielding varieties‚ to the use of pesticides‚ and to better management techniques. (“Green Revolution”) About four decades after the Green Revolution helped produce food in great amounts‚ organic farming was employed in various places in the world to avoid the bad side
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Although the Green Revolution originally described developments for rice and wheat‚ high-yielding varieties HYVs have since been developed for other major food crops important to developing countries‚ including Sorghum‚ Millet‚ Maize‚ Cassava and beans. Moreover‚ a fully fledged system of international agricultural research centres now works on many aspects of developing country agriculture (the future harvest centres that make up the consultative group on international agricultural research.)
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Green revolution within reach People need energy all the time. Not only electricity is in great demand to make houses and other building operate but we need fossil fuels to use wide range of transportation. According to estimates‚ unrenewable sources will run out in the forseeable future. Scientists predict that we will be able to exploit coal for about two hundred and twenty years‚ natural gas about sixty years and oil will run out in forty years1. They also suggest the shift from fossil-fuel-consuming
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increased use of fertilizers and irrigation are known collectively as the Green Revolution‚ which provided the increase in production needed to make India self-sufficient in food grains‚ thus improving agriculture in India. Hybrid high-yielding wheat was first introduced to India in 1963 by Dr. Borlaug. Borlaug has been hailed as the Father of the Green Revolution but M.S. Swaminathan is known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in India" The methods adopted included the use of high yielding varieties(HYV)
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issues throught the world. As the 21st century begins‚ many nations are trying to deal with with the enviornmental effects of industrialization. Therefore began the green revolution‚ an attemp to change and if not change at least make progress. Starting in the early 19th Century the United States underwent an industrial revolution. The work that many people did changed as they moved from farms and small workshops into larger factories. They tended to buy things in stores‚ rather than make them
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Green revolution has been one of the most visible forms of globalisation. This has brought about some kind of interconnectedness amongst countries. With this interconnectedness comes a form of contradiction within the Green Revolution strategy. This essay will consider important aspects such as the impact that Green revolution has had on the world as a whole‚ specifically Asia. This essay will also critically discuss the dominant tenets and power relations involved in the process of the green revolution
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