Impact of Green Revolution on Farmers and Landless Labourers

When the package programme for the development of agriculture to increase agricultural production was introduced in the mid-sixties, it was expected that the new seeds will be neutral to the scale. This assumption has, however, been proved wrong as the new seeds are no longer scale neutral.

In India, there are four categories of farmers, i.e. (i) large farmers, (ii) medium farmers, (iii) small farmers, and (iv) marginal farmers. Each one of them has not been equally benefited from the new seeds. It would be worthwhile to examine the impact of Green Revolution on the various categories of farmers and the dependent labourers.