Question

Do you believe that green revolution has made India self-sufficient in foodgrains? How?

Answer 1

(i) The green revolution has played a significant role in making India self-sufficient in foodgrains. The revolution in the late 1960s introduced the Indian fanner to the cultivation of wheat and rice using high yielding varieties (HYVs) of seeds.
(ii) The HYV seeds promised to produce much greater amounts of grain on a single plant. As a result, the same piece of land would now produce far larger qualities of food grains than was possible earlier.
(iii) Improved irrigation facilities, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, etc. also contributed a lot in increasing agricultural production.