Significant government initiatives during Green Revolution Period:

♤ Government investment in agriculture rose significantly. Institutional finance in agriculture sector doubled from 1968 to 1973.

♤ The agricultural prices commission was set up in 1965 and efforts were made to assure the farmers a sustained remunerative price.

♤ Public investment, institutional Credit remunerative prices and availability of the new technology at low prices raised the profitability of private investment by farmers.

♤ The result of government's initiative was that the rate of increase in the gross irrigated area rose from 1 million hectares per annum in Pre Green Revolution to about 2.5 million hectares per annum during the 1970s.