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It is the introduction of new techniques of agriculture, which became popular by the name of Green Revolution (GR) in early 1960s— at first for wheat and by the next decade for rice , too. It revolutionised the very traditional idea of food production by giving a boost by more than 250 per cent to the productivity level.18 The Green Revolution was centred around the use of the High Yielding Variety (HYV) of seeds developed by the US agro-scientist Norman Borlaug doing research on a British Rockfellor Foundation Scholarship in Mexico by the early 1960s. The new wheat seeds which he developed in vivo claimed to increase its productivity by more than 200 per cent. By 1965, the seeds were successfully tested and were being used by farmers in food deficient countries such as Mexico, Taiwan.
Components of the Green Revolution
The Green Revolution was based on the timely and adequate supply of many inputs/components. A brief review on the Green Revolution is given below: