History of the Green Revolution

Q. Identify the characteristics of the wheat variety inroduced by Norman Borlaug.

1. Disease resistance
2. Drought resistance
3. Pest resistance
4. High yield

Q. The disease-resistant strain of discovered by Borlaug was responsible for a sixty-percent increase in harvest in India.

1. wheat
2. rice
3. millets
4. corn

Q. __________ is an American scientist who experimented with disease-resistant streams of wheat.

1. Charles Darwin
2. Stephen Jay Gould
3. Norman Borlaug
4. Albert Einstien

Q. After the Bengal famine, the policy-makers of India envisioned a transformation in .

1. agriculture
2. industries
3. services
4. defense