This is referred to as the new agricultural techniques that brought multifold increases in agricultural production and greatly decreased the incidence of hunger worldwide.

It is a scheme/plan to improve the conditions of farmers in order to produce more grainsa slogan jai jawan jai kishan was given by late shastriji and later on by indiraji, atalji but worst was during regime of upa when thousands of farmers forced to commit succide.

This revolution is used in the field of agriculture by increasing the production of food grains

Phtosynthesis, a step to save greenary

Making nature to grow naturally without disturbing

The meaning of the term " Green Revolution" is that to grow more food-grains by virtue of breeding a new variety of crops. In the year 1962, there was a drought or famine and there was shortage of food-grains in India. In some Parts of the Country, even poor people did not have a one time meal. Therefore, the Govt.of India, as well as, the State of Maharashtra considered this question on priority basis. In the State of Maharashtra, various projects were taken in the Five Agriculture Universities to research on the various crops, so that, their yield may increase four times and we were succeeded in that research in many schemes by doing hybrid products of various food grains i.e. wheat, jawar ,rice and other major crops. These new varieties of crops increased the food-grain production in our country, as well as, in the State of Maharashtra. Then then Hon. Chief Minister of Maharashtra, late Shri Vasantrao Naikji introduced this Scheme in Maharashtra, and its very much succeeded. Af ...more

In 1961 India was on the brink of mass famine. Borlaug was invited to India by the adviser to the Indian minister of agriculture M. S. Swaminathan. Despite bureaucratic hurdles imposed by India's grain monopolies, the Ford Foundation and Indian government collaborated to import wheat seed from CIMMYT. Punjab was selected by the Indian government to be the first site to try the new crops because of its reliable water supply and a history of agricultural success. India began its own Green Revolution program of plant breeding, irrigation development, and financing of agrochemicals.
India soon adopted IR8 - a semi-dwarf rice variety developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) that could produce more grains of rice per plant when grown with certain fertilizers and irrigation. In 1968, Indian agronomist S.K. De Datta published his findings that IR8 rice yielded about 5 tons per hectare with no fertilizer, and almost 10 tons per hectare under optimal conditions. This was 10 ...more

Revolution in Agriculture sector is called as Green Revolution.

Prevention of likely red revolution

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