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1. Depletion of soil owing to the continuous cultivation of soil exhaustive crops like rice and wheat.
2. Depletion of underground water table due to over-irrigation of more moisture requiring crops like rice and wheat.
3. Green Revolution has increased the income disparity amongst the farmers.
4. Green Revolution led to polarisation of the rural society. It has created three types of conflicts in the rural community, namely, between large and small farmers, between owner and tenant farmers, between the employers and employees on agricultural farms.
5. Green Revolution has displaced the agricultural labourers, leading to rural unemployment. The mechanical innovations like tractors have displaced the agricultural labour.
6. Agricultural production in the Green Revolution areas is either stationary or has shown declining trend.
7. Some valuable agricultural lands have submerged under water (water-logging) or are adversely affected by salinity and alkalinity.
8. Green Revolution is crop specific. It could not perform well in the case pulses and oil seeds.
9. The traditional institution of Jijmani system has broken. Consequently, the barbers, carpenters, iron-smith, and watermen have migrated to the urban areas.
10. The soil texture, structure, soil chemistry, and soil fertility have changed.
11. About 60 per cent of agricultural land in the country remains unaffected by Green Revolution.
12. Green Revolution technologies are scale neutral but not resource neutral.
13. Punjab feeds the nation but farmers in the state, especially in the Malwa region fall prey to cancer. The take ‘Cancer Train’ to Bikaner for cheap treatment.